"A promise made is a debt unpaid."

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Source : Songs of a Sourdough (1907) "Cremation of Sam McGee"

Robert W. Service

#Trust Quotes #Truth Quotes #Honesty Quotes

“Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.”
“I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.”

Source : "Gilbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You canâ€™t consume much if you sit still and read books.”
“None of us is responsible for the...”

Source : Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.42, University of Illinois Press
“I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.”
“Defeat the enemies strategy.”
“We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we just observed things, watched things, without giving them a name, without coming to a conclusion? What do you think would happen? You would transcend everything.”
“My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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