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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties. ↗

— Charles W. Eliot

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Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over. ↗

— Hu Jintao

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The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

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