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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev in the 80s, My Way had just become a famous song, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev in a satirical, kind of cynical manner coined the term the Sinatra Doctrine and My Way was the song because the Baltic states in the Warsaw Pact wanted to go their own way and secede from the Soviet Union, so joking he says," Yeah, we've got the Sinatra Doctrine now."

  Robert Davi

  Song, People, Cynical

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, 'Davi’s Way' And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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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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• 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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• I was about to move out of my apartment because I was so broke. I'd sort of made a pact with myself that I wouldn't take a job unless it was interesting to me, and I became broke very fast.

  Michael Pitt

  Jobs, Moving, Interesting

  Interview With Martin Scorsese, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.

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• (I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin was an evil character, to be sure. But cowardice really isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Stalin ' that word is “sexy.” I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Sexy, Character, Thinking

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• That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.

  R. K. Milholland

  Suicide, Sometimes, Surprise

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• In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Distance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is a production and distribution pact, so they help with the production financing and take international territories and do international distribution and marketing.

  Courtney Solomon

  Marketing, Territory, Helping

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.

  Michael Pollan

  Want, All Time, Reader

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.

  Joseph Stalin

  Causes, Franco, Soviet

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• Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  World, Use, Illusion

  "Mahmoud Darwish" by Peter Clark, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2008.

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