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• This covenant energy holds and mirrors the pact that we have made of self-fulfillment for ourselves in this lifetime, and that covenant energy holds the full reflection of our promise within its framework.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Reflection, Mirrors, Self

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to Japan, with the expectation that they would then be sent to the United States. But they weren't accepted, so they stayed in Japan.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Japan, Expectations

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can play with that opportunity or not. This is my right, or poetic license, as someone who is building an artefact of fantasy - this implicit pact with the reader is my starting point.

  Agustin Fernandez Mallo

  Opportunity, Fantasy, Poetic

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The pact you have with your angels is they will stay with you throughout your life for protection. If you get off your path and start to live out of fear instead of love, they are with you to nudge you back to center. You also have other angels that come and go during different life issues. When you are expecting a child, when you're moving, or when you have a health crisis, extra angels come and help. They are needed, and they are provided.

  Doreen Virtue

  Children, Moving, Angel

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Right at the beginning of all of this [Ukraine to join NATO], serious senior statesmen, people like [George] Kennan for example and others warned that the expansion of NATO to the east is going to cause a disaster. I mean, it's like having the Warsaw Pact on the Mexican border. It's inconceivable. And others, senior people warned about this, but policymakers didn't care. Just go ahead.

  Noam Chomsky

  Senior, Mean, Ukraine

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was taking about. In 1990-91, no Russian hordes. Okay, what happens? Well there are actually visions of the future system that were presented. One was [Mikhail] Gorbachev. He called for a Eurasian security system, with no military blocs. He called it a Common European Home. No military blocs, no Warsaw Pact. Just an integrated security system with no conflicts.Now the other vision was presented by George Bush, this is the "statesman".

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Home, Security Systems

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Specifically in reference to Iran, Donald Trump will not be able to renegotiate the nuclear arms pact. His attempt to do so will alienate all the European powers involved and will cost a number of US companies some very lucrative contracts. It is a losing proposition for him and for the US. Much more so than for Iran, who will turn more and more to Russia and China as trading partners.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Russia, Iran, Numbers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

  Pat Robertson

  Long, People, Devil

  "Pat Robertson: Haiti ‘Cursed’ By ‘Pact To The Devil’" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Japan used to beat China routinely in wars. You know that, right? Japan used to beat China, they routinely beat China. Why are we defending? You know the pact we have with Japan is interesting. Because if somebody attacks us, Japan does not have to help.If somebody attacks Japan, we have to help Japan.

  Donald Trump

  War, Japan, Interesting

  "The Economist interviews Donald Trump". www.economist.com. September 3, 2015.

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• In the trade pact you know that was recently agreed to, I said you have to talk about devaluation. Because that's been their [China] single greatest asset in terms of what they are doing to us.

  Donald Trump

  Assets, China, Said

  Source: www.economist.com

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• The greatest finish line for me was finishing college - it was a pact I made with my mother, during a time when she fell ill. That happened during my Freshman year, and unfortunately she never saw me compete in the Olympics. But she really wanted me to finish college, because she never finished Junior High.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Mother, College, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The communists basically acted as the police force of the security system of the [Spain] Republic and were very much opposed to the anarchists, partially because [Joseph] Stalin still hoped at that time to have some kind of pact with Western countries against [Adolf] Hitler. That, of course, failed and Stalin withdrew the support to the Republic. They even withdrew the Spanish gold reserves.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Security Systems, Support

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Suicide, Constitution

  Abraham Lincoln, Steven B. Smith (2012). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.465, Yale University Press

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• They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell.

  Adolf Hitler

  Devil, Hell, Made

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• Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed

  Nicholas Sparks

  Secret, Would Be, Saws

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Nights In Rodanthe”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.

  Thomas Hobbes

  God, Men, Together

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• ...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.

  Zoë Heller

  Romance, Ends, Delusion

  Zoë Heller (2007). “Notes on a Scandal”, p.161, Penguin UK

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• He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Religious, Prayer, Secret

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.136, New Directions Publishing

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• That would be like making a pact with Lucifer. (Zarek) Yes, but I don’t smell like sulfur. And I happen to dress better. Luc always looks like a pimp. (Dionysus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Smell, Pimp, Dresses

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Embrace”, p.321, Macmillan

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• I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).

  C.S. Friedman

  Forever, Soul, Ignorant

  C.S. Friedman (1994). “When True Night Falls: The Coldfire Trilogy, Book Two”, p.301, Penguin

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• During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

  Sebastian Junger

  Death, War, Men

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• These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.

  Zadie Smith

  Country, Mean, Animal

  Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.413, Penguin UK

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• The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Solitude, Secret, Age

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.169, Penguin UK

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• Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.

  Neal Shusterman

  Drinking, People, Denial

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “Dread locks”

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• All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Cities, Forever

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