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Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. - Norman Dougl

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. – Norman Douglas

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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas

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Norman Douglas
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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. – Norman Douglas

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respect
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. – Proverb

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A liar is always lavish of oaths. – Pierre Corneille

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A politician is known by the promises he keeps. – Author Unknown

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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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Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. – Emily Saliers, “Center Stage,” Indigo Girls, 1989

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Now Im a wife and a mother of two. Its a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because thats what its like to be together for so long and go through what weve been through. I cant really have that relationship with them anymore. – Gwen Stefani

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I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this — we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc

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My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as Tarzan and in programs such as Ramar of the Jungle and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. – Henry Louis Gates

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