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• China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have emerged thanks to economic success, will have to be integrated into the political system. There is no guarantee that this process will run smoothly.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Running, Party, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

  Hans Kung

  Mean, Events, Doe

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Kung: 'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• The most challenging work is producing. The physical act of getting a production up and running is extremely taxing, and you never have any guarantee that your years of work on any given project will ever bear fruit.

  David Hayter

  Running, Challenging Work, Years

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• I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come out of the audience and tell me the worst joke ever. It's just a guarantee.

  Lewis Black

  Clubs, Comedy, Worst

  "Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.

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• I'm rather relaxed about death. From quite an early age I've regarded it as part of the deal, the unwritten guarantee that comes with your birth certificate.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Age

  Bob Monkhouse (2012). “Crying With Laughter: My Life Story”, p.329, Random House

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• Get down to your local swimming pool or your local swimming club, join up and see what it's like. I can guarantee that you're going to meet some great friends. Just being involved in water makes me happy and I'd like to see that transferred across to other people.

  Liam Tancock

  Swimming, People, Water

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

  Susan Orlean

  Two, Talent, Designer

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Women, Males, Transition

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• Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.

  Emily Yoffe

  Promise, Matter, Vow

  "Outnumbered" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license, for example. But the GPL is what I want to program with, because unlike the BSD license it guarantees that anybody who works on the project in the future will also contribute their changes back to the community.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Community, Example

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• Publications by the World Health Organization show that diphtheria is steadily declining in most European countries, including those in which there has been no immunization. The decline began long before vaccination was developed. There is certainly no guarantee that vaccination will protect a child against the disease; in fact, over 30,000 cases of diphtheria have been recorded in the United Kingdom in fully immunized children.

  Leon Chaitow

  Country, Children, Organization

  Leon Chaitow (2011). “Vaccination And Immunisation: Dangers, Delusions and Alternatives (What Every Parent Should Know)”, p.71, Random House

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• While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

  John F. Kennedy

  Effort, One Day, Lasts

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to kill four million Americans,... For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Home, Fighting

  Vice President's Remarks at the United States Military Academy Commencement, West Point, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 26, 2007.

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• Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Rights, Order

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

  Leslie Lamport

  Mistake, Thinking, Making Mistakes

  "Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses". www.wired.com. January 25, 2013.

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• As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Connelly's mere presence in a film guarantees that things will turn out badly for the male lead, as Connelly is always cast as the Angel of Death. Fun to hang out with, great eyes, amazing eyebrows, but the Angel of Death.

  Joe Queenan

  Beautiful, Dream, Fun

  "A whiter shade of guile" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2007.

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• There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Pride, Roots

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time

  James Connolly

  Fighting, Army, Citizens

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• If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Responsibility, Luck, Ambitious

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt (1974). “The private experience, Elliott Erwitt”

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• Being a parent is a life sentence. You see, that's why normal people should not have children because if you raise a kid with only love and support, I guarantee that kid will be in rehab by the time he is 16. Why? Because you never introduced him to Mr. Back-of-Your-Hand. You know why I only broke into a liquor store once? 'Cause my father introduced me to Mr. Back-of-His-Hand and its wiley sidekick, Mr. Foot-in-My-Ass.

  Christopher Titus

  Children, Father, Kids

  "Titus / The Visit". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who seemed to think I could write something worth publishing was my loyal husband. But I always remembered the professor from graduate school who urged me to write and who recommended me for that first writing assignment in 1964. When I protested to Sara Little that I didn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world, she gently reminded me that if I didn't dare mediocrity, I would never write anything at all.

  Katherine Paterson

  Husband, Writing, School

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Commitment is making a choice to follow through or to honor. Engagement and guarantee - we all love guarantees in life. Making a commitment, whether it's for something like climate change or to my family, or even to my fans - what that means to me is, whether on paper or verbally or spiritually, making a promise to guarantee that I will fulfill whatever agreement we have.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Mean, Commitment, Guarantees In Life

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• There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

  Winston Churchill

  Love You, Home, Support Systems

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• One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians' answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government. ... [H]aving someone else pay for medical care virtually guarantees that a lot more of it will be used. Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Care, Pay

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• I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Dollars

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