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I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.

If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.

The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.

No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile.

In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small to read), the following warning appears: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales.

Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"...The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog.

We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.

money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

After Westlife, I was in a scared place, you know; you've three children, and I worry about providing for them, and I had no guarantees going forward about the future.

If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.

We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.

I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being eaten. Thinking less than that, as humans do, will almost guarantee it.

I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.

You could have the paradox of lifetime job guarantees and far fewer workers.

This is our basic document. It guarantees our freedoms, ... I think the American people revere it, but they don't know a lot about it. I'm trying to inspire students and teachers . . . to study it, to read it.

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

I guarantee you it will not be anyone from the outside.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

The evidence of marked improvement in the manufacturing sector further guarantees there will be no interest rate cut this Thursday. Indeed, we admit it is looking increasingly questionable whether interest rates will be trimmed further.

The industry is quite happy with the ruling they have in hand. There's no guarantees as to what would have come out of a review, favorable or unfavorable.

A high payroll guarantees you wins. It doesn't guarantee you championships. If you let me spend $100 million or more every year, I guarantee you I'll play over .500.

The Chinese Constitution guarantees freedom of religion for Chinese citizens.

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The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because they want to do one more. "Let's do one more." So, "What for?" I guarantee you there's not going to be a change.

Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

Money does not guarantee success.

An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

I cannot guarantee anything.

The desire, enthusiasm and fires are there, and this selection has only intensified all those elements. I know that I need to go up another level but I believe I've got it within me to do just that. I don't need to be told that there are no guarantees in life. There never have been. Six Nations titles won't be won by one man alone, or even 15 men. They'll be won by a squad. I want to be part of that squad. I'm sure at some stage I'll get an opportunity.

The deterioration we did see was in energy prices; if you take out energy prices, things improved a bit. The bad news is that September import price data guarantees that we'll have a widening deficit in September.

The constitution of Zimbabwe guarantees all individuals the right to legal representation and lawyers are empowered and obliged to represent their clients.

The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.

The Constitution guarantees justice and a speedy trial, ... I am guilty of no crime and eager to prove my innocence.

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.

Nobody gets any guarantees.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

Nothing guarantees more applause and more support than the call to abolish the IRS.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there’s no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside

Guarantees are for major appliances, not for murder.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.

The fact that the government had to put up hundreds of billions of dollars to Citibank in guarantees was a public declaration that Citibank was a mess. Making Citibank go through financial restructuring would not have conveyed any more different information. So it's very hard to see why it would have had that kind of a panic if it were done well.

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

I don't need a guarantee if I have you.

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was courageous of Harvard University: the notion was that we would match Harvard students with Nigerian students, so that every student would have a guide, creating a guarantee of intimacy with the city.

There will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you.

If we could only live the way we know deep down we should, we would guarantee ourselves a life of richness & fulfillment.

I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

The most natural way you would attempt to cope with something inside you that is affecting your moods and your energy levels is to intervene with chemicals to help and because medical science hasn't come up with pharmaceuticals that do particularly well you tend to reach for the chemicals that are outside the Pharma counter, i.e. narcotics and alcohol because they can guarantee your mood more or less.

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

No two things are equal. No two people are equal. Nobody can guarantee equal outcomes unless everybody's poor.

Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.

I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.

Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.

If Corporations are people, I guarantee you that a government of those people, by those people, and for those people will continue to exist.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.