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When a man takes an oath...,hes holding his ownself in his own han

When a man takes an oath…,hes holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he neednt hope to find himself again. – Robert Bolt

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It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales! – Robert Bolt

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Moralitys not practical. Moralitys a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. – Robert Bolt

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Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. – Robert Bolt

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

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future. – 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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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. – Sydney J. Harris

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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. – Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930

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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Dont let them put you in that position. – Leo Buscaglia

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The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace. – Gustav Heinemann

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