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• We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

  Lillian Hellman

  Beautiful, Thinking, Noble

  Lillian Hellman (1957). “CANDIDE The famous musical based on Voltaire's satire”

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• Imagine if you would, what would happen to your sorrows and fears if God Himself, the maker of heaven and earth, the Father of our Lord, the sovereign One, were to come to you, wrap you in His almighty arms and say to you, 'I love you with a perfect love, exactly as I love My Son. I will never stop loving you, no matter what. I am completely, utterly for you. I promise, on My own life, that I will do you good every day of your life. And because I control all things, that means My good is all you will ever experience from this time forward.'

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Father, Love You, Mean

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• Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Path, Faith In God

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• The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.

  John Stott

  Believe, Law, Achievement

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.26, InterVarsity Press

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• If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part.

  Barack Obama

  People, Community, United States

  Remarks by the President in Closing of the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 18, 2015.

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• Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Government, Focus

  "Obama ventures into swamp, and enemy political territory, to deliver Earth Day message". www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2015.

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• Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Made

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Writing, Past

  "Lawmakers clear path for Obama's historic trade deal" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Peace, Brother

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Land, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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• My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be
  found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the
  enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Grief, Sadness

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• We are troubled, but we have hope and tremendous promise.

  Sara Shandler

  Inspirational, Having Hope

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• Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.

  William J. Clinton

  Land, Balance, Obligation

  Clinton, William J. (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.45, Best Books on

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• Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Happiness, Anger, Decision

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• Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Giving, World, Satisfaction

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• I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.

  Sherrod Brown

  Jobs, Wages, Higher

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• Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.

  David Korten

  Kings, Luxury, Long

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• A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Religious, Hypocrite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

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• I truly feel sorry to all the fans of the games I have made. Ninja Gaiden 2, which will launch on the 3rd of June will be the last Ninja Gaiden I will create. I will also never be able to make Dead or Alive 5. I regret the circumstances that have forced me to leave Tecmo, where I had worked for so many years, and I regret the disappointment this will cause my fans. However, I can no longer continue to work with President Yoshimi Yasuda, a man who chooses not to honor promises even when he is able to do so. I truly hope that nothing like this happens again in the future.

  Tomonobu Itagaki

  Disappointment, Regret, Sorry

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• Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

  Lisa Kristine

  Jobs, People, World

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• The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

  Deborah Tannen

  Love Is, Wish, World

  Deborah Tannen (2001). “I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives”, p.23, Random House

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• I don't know your story or your dreams or the things that steal your sleep, but I know they matter. I hope you story is rich with characters, rich with friends and conversation. I hope you know some people who carry you, and I hope you have the honor of carrying them. I hope that there's beauty in your memories, and I hope it doesn't haunt you. And if it does, then I hope there is someone who will walk you through the night and remind you of the promise of the sunrise, that beauty keeps coming, that there are futures worth waiting and fighting for, and that you were made to dream.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Dream, Memories, Character

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• The promise of celebrity is a transcendental human state of existence. It's not real. We do know the fact that celebrities as mortal beings exist and if you are looking for love by being famous or being around the famous - ultimately that goes away.

  George Hickenlooper

  Real, Facts, Looking For Love

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people... sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.

  Mick Jagger

  Religious, Thinking, People

  "Pop Music: 10 Questions: Mick Jagger". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1991.

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• A friend who used to be my customer told me one day: "I promise I am going to help you to be relocated." He's a realtor and after he bought two buildings in the business district in Boston, he said: "Are you ready for your next place?" I could not believe it.

  Julie King

  Believe, Boston, Two

  "10 Questions for Local Food Entrepreneur: Julie King". Interview with Rachel Greenberger, blogs.babson.edu. July 30, 2014.

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