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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. – Hannah Arendt

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. – Hannah Arendt

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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. – Hannah Arendt

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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

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All promise outruns performance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For every promise, there is price to pay. – Jim Rohn

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Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. – Thomas Fuller

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