Guarantees Quotes - Page 11

• I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Authenticity, Signing

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• The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men. It therefore provides strong guarantees for the rights of the accused but essentially no guarantees for the rights of the victim. If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Strong, Children, Men

  Judith Lewis Herman (1992). “Trauma and recovery”, Basic Books

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• Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

  Robert Nozick

  Refusal

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

  Thad Matta

  Basketball, College, Ohio State

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• Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.

  Medard Boss

  Powerful, Feelings, Everyday

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• Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

  Fred Armisen

  Funny Graduation, Hammers, Way

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• We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.

  Howard Rheingold

  Smart, Responsibility, Guarantees That

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• Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

  Yasuhiro Konishi

  Art, Character, Doe

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• When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Integrity, Men, Law

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• I personally guarantee that now that bear wouldn't get past Dover without being shot.

  David Blunkett

  Past, Guarantees That, America

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• I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, People, Community

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• This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.

  Charles Schumer

  Guarantees That, Uncharted Waters, Immigration

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• No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, War, Congratulations

  Letter to Lord Wavell, 26 Nov. 1940, in Second World War (1949) vol. 2, ch. 27

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• This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Country, Justice, Diversity

  James Weldon Johnson (2004). “Writings”

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• I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear.

  Chris Hadfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Former ISS Commander Talks About Being Blind in Space" by Jon M. Chang, abcnews.go.com. March 18, 2014.

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• To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

  William James

  Teacher, Educational, Philosophy

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• Air power alone does not guarantee America's security, but I believe it best exploits the nation's greatest asset - our technical skill.

  Hoyt Vandenberg

  Military, Believe, Air

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• Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

  Bruce Pearl

  Sports, Volleyball, Hard Work

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• Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Feb 04, 2017

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• I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Journey, Dresses

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Try handling problems in the office as dispassionately as you can and I guarantee you will have a better time of it; not least because when you bring emotion into the conversation, you furnish your colleagues with an easy "out" for dismissing you. If you are able to strip out the emotion, however, people have to deal with you based on the facts.

  Suze Orman

  Jobs, Emotional, Office

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• The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Marriage, Wedding, Lasts

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• Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Struggle, Rights

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• First of all, who cares if people hate you? There's always a guarantee that certain people will dislike you. There's never any guarantee that anyone will like you. So if anyone likes you at all, you've already won.

  Chelsea Handler

  Fun, Hate, Guarantees That

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• Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Travel, Adventure, Guarantees That

  Morris Raphael Cohen (1993). “The Faith of a Liberal”, p.438, Transaction Publishers

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