Guarantees Quotes

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  The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Government, Politics

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

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

  Anne Campbell

  Love, Mean, Romance

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• Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.

  Ahmet Necdet Sezer

  Peace, Important, Belief

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• universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friendship, Compassion, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

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• The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Helping Others

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• I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes.

  Jamie Oliver

  School, Mcdonalds, Cake

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

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• A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspiring, Reality, People

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• America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Country, Freedom, America

  Speech on September 26, 1891. "Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumović, p. 269, 1990.

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• Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sports, Work, Sweat

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• I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

  Steve Israel

  Retirement, Believe, Mean

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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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• Age is no guarantee of maturity.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Maturity

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.23, Bethany House

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• To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dream, Land, People

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.27, McClelland & Stewart

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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

  Guarantees That, Two, Literature

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

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• Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

  Ron Fournier

  Victory, President, Campaigns

  "Ron Fournier Is Smarter Than You Are" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Character, Carefree

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• Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Friends, Giving Up

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• Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn't come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Two, Goal

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 25, 2013

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• Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

  William J. Clinton

  Failure, Trying, Pessimism

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• The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

  John Updike

  Reality, Self, Guarantees That

  John Updike (1989). “Self-consciousness: memoirs”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.

  William O. Douglas

  Compelling Reason, Race, Quality

  "DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 23, 1974.

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• We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Thinking, May, Originality

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...

  Harlan F. Stone

  Opportunity, Thinking, Essence

  Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586, (604), 1940.

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