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Letter "P" » promised
«He is better known for what he has promised to the sciences than for what he as actually done for them.»
«If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?»
Author: David Ben-Gurion
(
Prime Minister,
Statesman)
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Keywords:
agreement,
anti-Semitism,
anti,
Arab,
Auschwitz,
Hitler,
Israel,
promised,
Semitism,
stolen
«I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice.»
«I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.»
«I promised I would never leave youAnd you should always knowWherever you may goNo matter where you areI never will be far away»
«He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell.»
«Four years ago we said we would invigorate our economy by giving people greater freedom and incentives to take risks and letting them keep more of what they earned. We did what we promised, and a great industrial giant is reborn.»
«Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.»
«If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.»
Author: William James
(
Philosopher,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
bloodthirstiness,
eradicate,
eradicating,
fittest,
hunt,
prey,
primitive,
promised,
rivals,
survival of the fittest
«If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.»