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Oaths are the fossils of piety. - George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety. – George Santayana

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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. – George Santayana

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A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on mans capacity for making promises and keeping them. – Hannah Arendt

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It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office. – Shirley MacLaine

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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift

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Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. – Steven Grayhm

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