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Robert Doyle (1953) Australian politician
News.com.au http://www.news.com.au/mayor-surprised-adelaide-has-tv/story-0-1225699598081
Pat Paulsen (1927–1997) United States Marine
Unidentified rally, 1968<br>Featured in Pat Paulsen for President (1968), part 4 of 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gpLpP6CWvo&feature=relmfu, 06:22 ff (33:22 ff in full program) <br class="br">Context: I've conducted my campaign thus far in the true American political tradition: I lied about my intention to run [... ] I have been consistently vague on all the issues [... ] Therefore I promise you all, my fellow Americans, that I will continue to make promises that I will be unable to fulfill.
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Comedy album A Wild and Crazy Guy
“My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Mark Twain book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Variant: To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 22.
Kunti character from Indian epic Mahabharata
Karna's promise to Kunti, in p. 233-34.
The God of Small Things