By dwelling upon the irretrievable, we not only guarantee many sleepless nights, we also drain precious energy and focus away from the things we can remedy.

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If we develop these resources to the fullest, we will not only guarantee ourselves an affordable and reliable supply of energy, but also enjoy benefits throughout our economy.

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We got it right and we are the only party that can take people from recession to recovery and guarantee that we have growth in the future, and I'm very confident about the basis of growth in this country.

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Now that we've captured or killed thousands of al Qaeda and taken down the regimes of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, it's important that we stand up democratically elected governments as the only guarantee that they'll never again revert to terrorism or the production of deadly weapons.

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The only way to guarantee affordable coverage for everyone is to cover everyone, and that is the choice we need for America.

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In a paper that will be published soon in the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, he maintains that not only is past economic growth no guarantee of future stockmarket returns, but even future economic growth (could we but know it) is no guarantee of contemporaneous stockmarket returns except in the most transitory way.

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