#certainty

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The only certainty is that nothing is certain. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. ↗

— George Eliot

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The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Modeling in Europe at the beginning of my career was pretty hard, with the constant traveling and uncertainty as to where I was going to be from one day to the next. ↗

— Molly Sims

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In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#conflict #economy #era #ingenious #leader

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty. ↗

— Robert Trout

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