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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Happiness, Time, Future

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
Epictetus

Angry, Evil, Present

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier

Happiness, May, Perfect

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Else, Error, Fails

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Stendhal

Men, Power, Eternal

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
Edward Bach

Life, Best, Moment

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
Sitting Bull

Country, Left, Forever

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus

Good, Best, Evil

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.
Suze Orman

Maturity, Individual, Hold

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
Thomas a Kempis

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
Russell Baker

Good, American, Days

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.
Mortimer Adler

Truth, Heart, End

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
Franz Liszt

Art, Open, Divine

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
Stephen Leacock

Laugh, May, Forgive

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
Hart Crane

Time, Great, Patience

Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
Earl Wilson

Nothing, Done, Him

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.
Carre Otis

Stupid, Parents, Again

Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
Tim Berners-Lee

End, Everybody, Knows

I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.
Elizabeth Hurley

Time, Faithful, Indeed

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
Condoleezza Rice

Success, Peace, Best

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
Mary Douglas

American, Her, Israel

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Chance, Left, Number

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.
Katherine Harris

Good, Best, Future

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
Elias Canetti

Future, Thought, Become

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.
Eric Holder

American, Values, Deserve

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
Brian Ferneyhough

Work, Art, Fashion

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.
Ashley Judd

Special, Purpose, Gift

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
Hans Blix

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
Jay Weatherill

Government, Respect, Wisdom

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
Jane Byrne

Become, Chicago, Decline

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