Guarantees Quotes - Page 24

• We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

  David Dinkins

  Government, Ties, Grants

  PBS interview, www.thirteen.org.

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• Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

  Jan Smuts

  Kings, War, Promise

  Jan Christian Smuts (1952). “Jan Christian Smuts: a biography”, William Morrow & Company

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• Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.

  Susan Jacoby

  Disappointment, Writing, Simple

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• It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.

  Arthur Goldberg

  War, Rights, Temptation

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• Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.

  B. F. Skinner

  Hands, People, Community

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.153, Hackett Publishing

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• As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wish, Our Society, Protection

  "Michigan's ban on affirmative action upheld by Supreme Court" By Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2014.

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• To be wise use three languages: think well, feel well and do well. And to be wise allow yourselves to be surprised by the love of God. That will guarantee a good life.

  Pope Francis

  Wise, Good Life, Thinking

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• The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.

  Evo Morales

  Government, Goal, Unity

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• There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

  Francis Chan

  Fruit, Forget, Pursuit

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• When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

  Vanna Bonta

  Fearless, Outcomes, Courageous

  "Space: What Love’s Got to do with It". www.thespacereview.com. October 25, 2004.

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• Some have argued that the President is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a United States citizen who is a senior operational leader of al Qaeda or associated forces. This is simply not accurate. 'Due process' and 'judicial process' are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

  Eric Holder

  Senior, Leader, President

  Address at Northwestern University Law School, delivered 5 March 2012, Chicago, IL

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• We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day.

  Joel Osteen

  Grateful, Opportunity, Years

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• Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.

  Caroline Myss

  Running, Guarantees That, Choices

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• Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.

  Caroline Myss

  Safety, Doe, Action

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• I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

  Utah Phillips

  Guarantees That, Want Something, White

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• A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

  Richard Bach

  Years, Choices, Different

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• Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

  Anthony de Jasay

  Self, Balance, Liberty

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• Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.

  Walker Percy

  Obnoxious, Uneducated

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Eight, Black

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Betrayal, Struggle, Rights

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• Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Attitude, Giving, Community

  "Chobani Yogurt's Success Starts Where a Giant Left Off". Interview with Diana Ransom, www.entrepreneur.com. May 25, 2012.

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• If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Compassion, Practice, Path

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• Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

  Moliere

  Marriage, Wife, Affection

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.91, Penguin

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• All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Long, Unhappy, Searching For Happiness

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• I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.”

  Afeni Shakur

  Love, Inspirational, Children

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