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Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

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Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

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One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes. ↗

— Richard Branson

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I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

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I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy. ↗

— Eva Braun

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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

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I'm into wellbeing, not because of social pressures to look a certain way, but because I'm interested in living a long, full and healthy life. ↗

— Kelly Brook

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