#assurance

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose? ↗

— John Shelton Reed

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Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. ↗

— Walter Scott

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It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. ↗

— Rod Serling

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If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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