Guarantees That Quotes

• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  Irving Kristol

  Witty, Freedom, Humorous

  "Two Cheers for Capitalism". Book by Irving Kristol, May 11, 1978.

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• Getting lost in a place like this you can almost guarantee that you aren't going to make it out here.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Getting Lost, Guarantees

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• Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

  Michael Moore

  Mean, Opposites, Democracy

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• President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.

  Bev Perdue

  Country, Fighting, Equal Pay

  "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Writing, People

  "The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

  Scott Turow

  Democracy, Pillars, Public Education

  "Let-Them-Eat-Cake-Attitude Threatens to Destroy a Network of Public Assets" by Scott Turow, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Blessing, Boredom, Risk

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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• The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Wise, Spiritual

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• If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Courage, Freedom, Opportunity

  Noam Chomsky, Heinz Dieterich (1999). “Latin America: from colonization to globalization”, Ocean Pr

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• Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Persistence, Results, Inevitable

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• There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.

  Brent Weeks

  Sacrifice, Winning, Differences

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel”, Hachette UK

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• Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Vocabulary, People

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• Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Greed

  "Is Michael Moore Pro-Piracy: Illegal Copies of “Capitalism: A Love Story” Inspiring OWS?" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. December 6, 2011.

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• It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Firefighter, Support

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• When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

  Matthew Bourne

  Goodnight, Good Night, Thinking

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• My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B.

  Jenson Button

  School, Class, Careers

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• We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

  Noel Coward

  Death, Suicide, Afterlife

  Noel Coward (1965). “Three plays by Noel Coward: Blithe spirit, Hay fever [and] Private lives”

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• I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

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

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• Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Money, Credit

  Little Dorrit bk. 1, ch. 23 (1857)

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• A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

  Charles Dickens

  Two, Literature, Legs

  Little Dorrit bk. 1, ch. 23 (1857)

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• Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Real, People

  "The Politics of Ignorance" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2005.

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• If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

  Kathy Ireland

  Self Esteem, Business Success, Tomorrow

  "Kathy Ireland: Designing Woman". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

  Elton John

  Successful, Hiv, Next

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• I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

  Tupac Shakur

  Life, Music, Science

  "Tupac: Resurrection". Documentary, January 22, 2003.

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