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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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• 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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• If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Numbers, Literature, Layers

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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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• Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Peace, Spring, Real

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.77, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When you change a lead actor, everything's going to change - but you can rest assured he's going to absolutely smash it.

  Tom Riley

  Actors

  "Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi will 'completely revitalise' the show says co-star Tom Riley" by Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. April 29, 2014.

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• The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.

  Bernard Lewis

  Philosophy, War, Iran

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• I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognize, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form.

  George Boole

  Law, Essence, Special

  George Boole (1952). “Collected Logical Works”

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• What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Self, Hands, Anxiety

  William Batchelder Greene (1873). “A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women”, p.6

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• There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to conceive how some necessary balance, between demand and supply, between exports and imports, or the like, will be brought about without deliberate control. The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Balance, Inability

  "In Memoriam: F.A. Hayek" by Virginia Postrel, reason.com. June 1992.

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• The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Congratulations, Self, Hymns

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.227, Penguin

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• It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Memories, Moon, Impact

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• Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

  George Meade

  War, Men, History

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• The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.

  Alan Dershowitz

  War, Air, Israel

  "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways". Book by Alan Dershowitz, February 17, 2006.

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• If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.

  Alan Watts

  Moon, Suffering, World

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.

  John Knox

  Practice, Fruit, Study

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• The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Real, Lying

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1904). “The Logic of Hegel”

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• Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Loyalty, People, Giving

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, People, Principles

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• I think that it is a fallacy to suppose that helpful cooperation in the future will be assured by the attempted compulsion of an inflexible rule. Rather will such cooperation depend upon the fostering of firm friendships springing from an appreciation of community ideals, interests, and purposes, and such friendships are more likely to be promoted by freedom of conference than by the effort to create hard and fast engagements.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Appreciation, Thinking, Effort

  "Autobiographical Notes of Charles Hughes". Book edited by D. J. Danelski and J. S. Tulchin, 1973.

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• Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another man his troubles, and if anyone wants a monopoly on dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Law, Sitting Down

  "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health". Book by L. Ron Hubbard. 1987 Edition, p. 226,

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• In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Philosophy, Yield

  "What Is Called Thinking?". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1952.

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• Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.

  Tim Dorsey

  Political, Toxic, Citizens

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• The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones.

  Joseph Priestley

  Men, Ideas, Mind

  Joseph Priestley, Henry Ware (1834). “Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life”, p.171

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• The item of clothing that makes us feel powerful is the one that makes us feel confident and self-assured, that magically makes us look our best in all kinds of circumstances.

  Valerie Steele

  Powerful, Self, Looks

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