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• Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

  John Ruskin

  Positive, Dream, Inspiration

  Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Curran's speech at The Chancellor's Dinner, Mansion House, www.city.ac.uk. April 23, 2014.

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• Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

  Anthony Powell

  Children, Disappointment, Years

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, University of Chicago Press

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• In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Broken, Should, Worthy

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• Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Faith, Philosophical

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• Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

  Maria Cantwell

  Change, Kings, Government

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• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  Edmund Burke

  Beauty

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• We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, Generations, Noble

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

  Abdallah II

  Real, Believe, Together We Can

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• Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.

  Rick Yancey

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.225, Penguin

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• Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

  Herbert Croly

  Ocean, Land, United States

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.

  Zebulon Pike

  Life And Love, Men

  "The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike".

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• With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Drama, Environment, Friction

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• Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Appreciate, Curiosity, Important

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• Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

  Robert Breault

  Morning, Horizon, Sun

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• America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

  Charlotte Bunch

  America, Unfaithful

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• The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

  Billy Sunday

  Cheer, Liars, Lying

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Honor, Important, Keep Moving Forward

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2010). “Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know”, p.7, Conari Press

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• So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  States, Minutes, Pizza

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• I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Optimism, One Day, I Promise

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• Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

  Delia Smith

  Sea, Numbers, Kitchen

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• No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again

  William J. Clinton

  Hate, Moving, Mean

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• What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

  Hermann Broch

  People, Important, What's Important

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• Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Gambling, Rich, Poor

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• There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

  Livy

  Men, Rewards, Enterprise

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book IV, section 35,

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• What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

  Gilbert Highet

  Support, Political, Politics

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