Guarantees Quotes - Page 17

• Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Mean, Light, Scope

  The New York Times, November 28, 1954.

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• Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

  Brian Tracy

  Book, Knowledge, Years

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 26, 2014

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• You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.

  William Hague

  Stress, Important, Able

  Interview with James Landale, news.bbc.co.uk. July 24, 2011.

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• You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Winning, Guarantees That, Car

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• I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Girl, Fun, Thinking

  "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2005.

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• There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee the safety of the country and that 'as we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Military, California

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.5, PublicAffairs

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• The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

  Aaron Levie

  Knowing, Chance

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• . . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

  Kathy Lette

  Recipes, Planning, Brilliant

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• We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.

  Francis Crick

  Running, Long, Way

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• The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Objectivity, Color, White

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• In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having such complete knowledge may actually hinder rather than help the onward march. The deeper secrets of spiritual life are unraveled to those who take risks and who make bold experiments with it. They are not meant for the idler who seeks guarantees at every step. Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Ocean, Order

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• To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will. At that point the relationship between music and the musician is direct and reliable.
  The relationship with music is always mysterious: when it works, you can never tell. You can never guarantee when it's going to work. You can only to put yourself in a place where it's more likely to happen.

  Robert Fripp

  Music, Art, Maturity

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• All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.

  Carl Schmitt

  Law, Decision, Lasts

  Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Pay The Price, Want

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• But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

  Gene Tunney

  Exercise, Simple, Men

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• There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

  Max Tegmark

  Convincing Yourself, Trying, Impossible

  Max Tegmark (2014). “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”, p.29, Vintage

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• In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

  Alvin Plantinga

  Religious, Errors, Venture

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

  Carter Glass

  Country, People, Political

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• Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant homosexual agenda enjoy religious freedom. Any church in America that dares to preach what the Bible says about soul-damning, nation-destroying moral filth of the vile homosexual beasts among us, loses all Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and speech rights.

  Fred Phelps

  Religious, America, Rights

  Letter to Boris Yeltsin, 1997.

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• There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Freedom Of Speech, Speech

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• Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

  Garth Brooks

  Real, Life Is Like, Therapy

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• The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally.

  Patrick Pearse

  Religious, Children, Opportunity

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• Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

  David Rakoff

  Writing, Guarantees That, Easier

  FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Apr 22, 2013

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• I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

  Steve Case

  Perseverance, Hard Work, People

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• It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

  William Vickrey

  Guarantees That, Land, Humanity

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