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• Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age.

  Richard Lindzen

  Age, Degrees, Generations

  "The Slow, Certain Death of the Global Warming Theory" by Alan Caruba, www.cnsnews.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Watches, Steps

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• The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change

  Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

  Taken, Choices, Entrepreneur

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• and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Character, Dark

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• Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

  Thomas Paine

  Death, Dying, Certain

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.77, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance for that you're in great trouble. If you want to call it a writer's block... that doesn't seem a very useful name for that kind of abiding that I think is the essence of the work.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Block, Thinking, Essence

  Big Think Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. September 25, 2010.

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• Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Challenges, World

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• I'm sure that inside your heart... you're trying with all your might to find it on your own... the reason you were born. Because... because really... there might not be anyone who was born with a reason. I think that everyone... everyone might have to find one on their own. [in her head] A reason for being born... A reason that it's okay to be alive... A reason to exist. [aloud] I think everyone might have to find it themselves... and decide it for themselves. It could be your dreams... your job... or a person... The reason you're looking for... might be vague, unclear... and uncertain. [in her head] And you might lose it. [aloud] But as long as you're alive... you have to keep searching for that reason.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Heart, Thinking, Long

  "Fruits Basket". Manga series by Natsuki Takaya, July 1998 – November 2006.

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• Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

  Michel de Montaigne

  People, Conjecture

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• Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.

  Woody Allen

  Confusing, Life Is, Ambiguous

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• Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

  Carl Sagan

  Perspective, Vision, Cosmos

  "Cosmos". p. 318. Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do. The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock'n'roll for a second that I'm on holiday.

  Joe Strummer

  Holiday, Thinking, Rocks

  "Strummer on Man, God, Law - and the Clash". Interviewed with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. January 31, 1988.

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• Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Acceptance, Discovery

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• Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.

  John Locke

  Men, Rules To Live By, Liberty

  1681 Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).

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• This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That's what we were certain of... You see, even though it's an uncertain world, we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the "evil empire" may have passed, evil still remains.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Past, Evil

  "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Past, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.348, Pan Macmillan

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• I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Children, Divorce, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Rain, Eye, Men

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.647, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to get thrown out of the columnists' club is to be uncertain about anything whatsoever on this earth.

  Eric Sevareid

  Media, Earth, Clubs

  Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”

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• It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Heart, Scams, Punters

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• What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

  Lord Byron

  Hero, Writing, Men

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

  Tim O'Brien

  Art, Way, Fiction

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• She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.

  Dan Brown

  Loneliness, Heart, Eye

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.76, Knopf

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• How will it be when one of us alone Goes on that strange last journey of the soul? That certain search for an uncertain goal, That voyage on which no comradeship is known?

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Journey, Goal

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.236, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I sit in one of the dives
  On Fifty-second Street
  Uncertain and afraid
  As the clever hopes expire
  Of a low dishonest decade

  W. H. Auden

  Hope, Clever, Fear

  "September 1, 1939" l. 1 (1939)

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