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Promises, promises...

We make them and we break them, because some promises are very hard to keep. Here are the top six most common broken promises...

1. I'll come back tomorrow
You always hear this from builders, plumbers and electricians. But the truth is very different. They won't come back until next week (or later). And you will probably need to phone them five times first.

2. I won't tell anyone
We love haring secrets and we happily make this promise. And at the time we really mean it. 'Don't worry,' we say, 'your secret is safe with me.' But of course it isn't. Research shows that everybody will always tell one other person the secret. Very soon the whole secret will know!

3. This won't hurt
A favourite phrase of doctors, dentist, and nurses. They usually say it just before they give you an injection. But the phrase is not complete. The full phrase is: 'This won't hurt me (but it will probably hurt you a lot).'

4. I'll write
You make a new friend on holiday or on a bus journey, you swap e-mail adresses, and you make this promise. Six months later you find a name and e-mail adress on a card or an old piece of paper. 'Oh dear!' you think - but then you remember that they didn't write to you either!

5. I'll pay you back tomorrow
In hamlet, Shakespeare told us never to borrow or lend money. He was right. When we lend people money they always make this promise, but then they forget. If we then ask for the money back, they think we are mean. If we don't ask, we never get the money back.

6. I'll always love you
Whitney Houston sang a song about this and every day, all over the world thousands of people make the same promise to each other. We know eternal love exists, but is this promise the most difficult one to keep of them all?

Şimdi Fatih kalksa mezarından, ne ben onu tanırım ne o beni tanır.
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This won't hurt While I was having an operation my doctor said that phrase and I told him he's a liar. He said "No, I'm not" By the way it really hurt.

Thanks dear

Allf of them are absolutely true! The first one is very common. We can easily experince it our daily life how much of it is true.

Thanks for sharing

absolutely right, especially the sixth one

thank you dear

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Şimdi Fatih kalksa mezarından, ne ben onu tanırım ne o beni tanır.
Ama İstanbul'u Bizanslılar almış deyip tekrar savaşır !

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