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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. - Hann

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. – Hannah Arendt

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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life. – 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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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. – Proverb

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He loses his thanks who promises and delays. – Proverb

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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyones letter. – Chinese Proverb

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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing. – Thomas Fuller

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