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• nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Games, Needs

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed. So do we," Newel assured him.

  Brandon Mull

  Thinking

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• My dearest goose, why didn't you trust me, when I assured you that you might?' he countered. 'I have cherished throughout the believe that you would confide in me, and you see I was quite right.

  Georgette Heyer

  Believe, Might, Trust Me

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• Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Greed, Three

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.88, Vintage

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• If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

  Richard Matheson

  Morning, Sleep, Men

  Richard Matheson (2007). “What Dreams May Come: A Novel”, p.144, Macmillan

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• She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

  E. M. Forster

  Sight, Criminals, Firsts

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• But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

  Meg Cabot

  Embarrassment, Remembered, Whole

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries: Ten Out of Ten”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Kabbalah, Hitting, Belief

  "Crystal clear" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Friendship, Happiness, Future

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 129

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• If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Laughter, Mistake, Humorous

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1975.

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• Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.

  Mel Gibson

  Secret, Recipes, Wonder

  "Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Director Martin Campbell and Graham King Interview EDGE OF DARKNESS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. January 27, 2010.

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• As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

  Katherine Harris

  Country, Jobs, Believe

  "PrimeTime Exclusive: Katherine Harris Interview" by Rebecca Raphael, abcnews.go.com. January 11.

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• I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Loyal And Faithful, Faithful, Loyal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

  Suze Orman

  Maturity, Fans, Assuming

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• Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

  Carre Otis

  Stupid, Parent, Dyslexia

  Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer (2011). “Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.

  Will Self

  Fall, Style, Fiction

  "Incidents along the road" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2009.

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• If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

  Stendhal

  Men, Thinking, Ruins

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.50, World Classic

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• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  Tacitus

  Best Friend, Worst Enemy, History

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• Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

  Sitting Bull

  Country, Years, Forever

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Needs, Christ, Righteousness

  Twitter post from Sep 07, 2014

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• With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.

  Arundhati Roy

  Cat, Black, World

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.82, Penguin Books India

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• By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.

  e. e. cummings

  Way, Prison

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, Xist Publishing

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• I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fall, Believe, Writing

  Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA

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• Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Hands, Doubt

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• Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

  Edward Bach

  Life Lesson, Giving, Development

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.13, McGraw Hill Professional

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