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Eggs and oaths are easily broken. - Danish Proverb

Eggs and oaths are easily broken. – Danish Proverb

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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. – Fareed Zakaria

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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. – Aeschylus

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Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. – Herbert Agar

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccolò Machiavelli

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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. – Dalai Lama

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. – Samuel Johnson

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