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“There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.”

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Book:Philosophical Essays

Source: Philosophical Essays

“My plan to put Social Security in an ironclad lockbox has gotten a lot of attention recently, and I'm glad about that. But I'm afraid that it's overshadowing some vitally important proposals. For instance, I'll put Medicaid in a walk-in closet. I'll put the Community Reinvestment Act in a secured gym locker. I'll put NASA funding in a hermetically sealed Ziploc bag.”

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Author:Al Gore

“To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.”

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Book:Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

Source: Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

“The highly complex, almost mathematical, nature of music creates for it an ironclad protection against the microbes of dilletantism, which penetrate much more easily into the fields of painting, literature, and the theater.”

Inspirational Art Literature Fields Painting Theater Complexes Protection Mathematical Penetrate Microbes Ironclads

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“After 100 years of trying, finally we passed health care for all Americans as a right for all - not just a privilege for a few. It honored the vows of our Founders: Of life, a healthier life; liberty; the freedom to pursue our own happinesses. ... We knew that ... this bill was ironclad constitutionally.”

Trying Years Care Liberty Bills Privilege Pursue Health Care Founders Honored Vow Healthier Life Ironclads

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“And then, also, when you're doing something that doesn't sound like anything else on the radio at the time, you almost need to, like, ironclad it to make sure it gets through, you know?”

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Author:Mark Ronson

“"We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so hungry to feel anything that she´d risk her free will for one night of fun.".”

Feels Night Fun Loses Emotion Risk Hungry Pairs Free Will One Night Ironclads

Author:Kim Harrison

“I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.”

Doe Home Film Mom Structure Chaos Fulfilled Home Life Ironclads

Author:Julia Roberts

“There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists.”

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Book:A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation

Source: A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: A Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation

“Even while we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist.”

People Knows Mind Kind Artist Environment Danger Rewards Academic Assurance Academia Ironclads

Author:Christian Wiman

“It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.”

Humans Has Beens Law Consequence Human Experience Unintended Consequences Ironclads

Author:Ian Tattersall

“The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning”

Writing Trying Walks Rooms Morning Picks Pens Weekdays Ironclads

Author:Anne Tyler

“You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky.”

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Author:J. K. Rowling