#certainties

We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to be. We don't know what our interest rates are going to be. We don't know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government's agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back. ↗

— Jim Renacci

#back #being #care #care costs #costs

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions. ↗

— Steve Hackett

#deals #more #philosophy #questions #religion

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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Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

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Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life. ↗

— George A. Smith

#life #more #none #recklessly #sobered

The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#come #first #great #how #involves

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

— William Reddington Hewlett

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In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#born #countries #crises #dying #egypt

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#cold #despite #everything #few #guaranteed