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“If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.”

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Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

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Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?

Tracey Garvis-Graves

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Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

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Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

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Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

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“On the one hand, freedom of speech guarantees a lack of freedom.”

Tamerlan Kuzgov

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I can guarantee you one thing, we will never agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

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