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Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It's better to say that you haven't got the right pencil than to say you can't write, or to blame your computer for losing your chapter than face up to your feeling that it's better lost.
Hilary Mantel
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I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.


B. R. Ambedkar
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I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.


Manmohan Singh
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe
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I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.
Robert Kocharian
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Pat Roberts
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If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.


William Tecumseh Sherman
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
Laura Bush
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I can assure the people of Alabama I have never done anything illegal.


Robert J. Bentley
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Sometimes you win by losing.


Jeremy Jackson
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Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.


Anthony Wayne
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Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood Marshall
I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.
Lee H. Hamilton
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I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.


Lizzie Andrew Borden
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Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'
Pat Paulsen
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
Fran Lebowitz
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.


Vince Lombardi
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I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Abraham Clark
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Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.
John James Audubon
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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.


Peter O'Toole
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