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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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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. – Hannah Arendt

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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt

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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. – Thomas Fuller

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There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give. – Proverb

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Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. – Author Unknown

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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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