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• Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. (Hannah Arendt) [promises/human/future]
• I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill] (Arthur James Balfour) [promises]
• America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got. (Charlotte Bunch) [america/love/promises/more]
• The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. His conversation clings to the weather and the news, yet he allows himself to be surprised into thought, and the unlocking of his learning and philosophy. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [speech/promises/employment/evil]
• Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. (Benjamin Franklin) [/promises/death]
• Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. (Benjamin Franklin) [promises/willpower/enemies]
• The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. (Robert Frost) [promises]
• But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. (Robert Frost) [promises]
• Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. (Thomas Fuller) [nice/superstition/promises]
• Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [promises/service]
• Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. (William Hazlitt) [promises/pleasure]
• The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them. (John F. Kennedy) [speak/promises/challenges/people]
• We stand today on the edge of a new frontier -- the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. (John F. Kennedy) [speak/promises/challenges]
• Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing. (George Bernard Shaw) [gambling/promises/property]
• Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. (Jonathan Swift) [promises]
• Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it. (Mark Twain) [marriage/death/promises/happiness]
• It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. (Evelyn Waugh) [thing/promises/willpower/taste]
• Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. (Simone Weil) [beauty/promises]
• In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them. (Isabelle Adjani) [love/promises]
• I'm a waiter, and I'm patient, because when God promises me something, and it's in the air and on my heart, I wait on Him. I wait and that's it. (Mary Blige) [god/promises]
• When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once? (Eva Braun) [promises]

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