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• I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

  David Levithan

  Want

  David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.105, Egmont UK

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• On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are "solved" to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Hands, Police

  "The Criminal Trial Is Not About Justice for the Victim" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.

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• Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

  Lena Dunham

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

  Freeman Dyson

  Climate, Predictions

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• It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Believe, Art Of War, Men

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1513.

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• But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning--the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life--a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Dream, Dark, Past

  Jed Rubenfeld (2007). “The Interpretation of Murder: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov

  Responsibility, Play, Chess

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• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

  Gary Ross

  Scary, Generations, Eras

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. October 21, 1998.

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• Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Confidence, Courage, Fear

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• Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Men, Handsome, Handsome Men

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.179, Penguin

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• Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Hurt, Tired, Challenges

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• I don't know that we teach it. I don't know that we emphasize it... I understand the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't think others know a lot about it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Philosophical, Men

  "Kingdome Come" by David Van Biema, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

  Euripides

  Change, Pride, Greatness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Past, People, Seductive

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• The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love You, Ego, And Love

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• You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.

  Juliette Binoche

  Jobs, Waiting, Difficult

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• Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Passion, Dedication, Common Purpose

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Mean

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• Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

  George W. Bush

  Uncertain Times, Economy, Certainty

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• Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a world the way a religious person lives in the world; I keep living in a world that I know to be enchanted, and not left alone. I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Religious, Doubt, World

  Lauren F. Winner (2012). “Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• These entities are clever enough to make Strieber think they care about him. Yet his torment by them never ceases. Whatever his relationship to the entities, and he increasingly concludes that their involvement with him is something 'good,' he also remains terrified of them and uncertain as to what they are.

  John Ankerberg

  Clever, Thinking, Care

  John Ankerberg (1992). “The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena”, Harvest House Pub

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• The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

  John Keats

  Life, Ambition, Character

  'Endymion' (1818) preface

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• It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Spring, Fall

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3129, GENERAL PRESS

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• How do commercial interests usually protect themselves from liability claims? Through insurance. In fact, in our society, the litmus test for safety is insurance. You can be insured for almost anything if you pay enough for the premium, but if the insurance industry isn't willing to bet its money on the safety of [biotechnology], it means the risks are simply too high or too uncertain for them to take the gamble.

  David Suzuki

  Mean, Safety, Risk

  David Suzuki, Holly Dressel (2009). “From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis”, p.201, Greystone Books Ltd

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• I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blessed, Thinking, Glimpse

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.223, Courier Corporation

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