#prom

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow. ↗

— Jones Very

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Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#cruel #little #much #promising #too

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments. ↗

— Tom Coburn

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I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#american dream #believe #children #dream #grandchildren

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. ↗

— Juan Cole

#another #before #class #go #party

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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