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- Nov 07, 2020
Promises Quotes
On the distance between a promise and its keeping.
A promise made and a promise kept aren't always the same thing, and these quotes sit with that gap, from personal vows between spouses to the pledges candidates make while campaigning. A few treat promise-keeping as a simple matter of character. Related: Make quotes.
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- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the threat of war is gone, we should not turn our backs on the men and women who eliminated that threat. We should embrace them and keep our promises we made to them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump promises to impose, soon after his inauguration, a new requirement on federal agencies: If they want to issue a new regulation, they have to rescind two regulations that are now on the books. The idea of 'one in, two out' has rhetorical appeal, but it's going to be extremely hard to pull off.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
- Broken Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since the 1980s and the Moral Majority, evangelicals have been loyal to the Republican Party, giving their votes in return for promises on abortion, family, and other arenas of policy which promised them protection for their churches and their priorities.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem for large scientific projects is to do something that is being done for the first time, balanced against cost, schedule. and promises to the government. That is a hard balancing act.
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- Nov 07, 2020