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• You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

  Saint Augustine

  Wings, People, Research

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.199

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• To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Twilight, Doors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.473

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• When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people.

  Prince Charles

  Christian, Numbers, People

  "Handicaps of royalty are highlighted by Prince's controversial remarks". "The Times" Newspaper, July 3, 1978.

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• How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

  Teresa of Avila

  Wisdom, Men, Poor

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• Our chaotic economic situation has convinced so many of our young people that there is no room for them. They become uncertain andrestless and morbid; they grab at false promises, embrace false gods and judge things by treacherous values. Their insecurity makes them believe that tomorrow doesn't matter and the ineffectualness of their lives makes them deny the ideals which we of an older generation acknowledged.

  Hortense Odlum

  Believe, Judging, People

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• I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Thinking, Self, People

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• We all act on what we know, what we see, what we are told and how we feel. The simple fact of the matter is that not a single one of us operates under identical influences. That is why the future is always uncertain.

  Mark Hodder

  Simple, Matter, Facts

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• Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Pain, Ignorance, People

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• His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.

  Ernest Jones

  Mother, Ambition, Self Confidence

  Ernest Jones (1961). “The life and work of Sigmund Freud”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how long would IBM be interested in research, but the gamble was taken and very shortly afterwards, I had this extraordinary fortune of stopping at Harvard to do a lecture and learning about the price variation in just the right way.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Jobs, Taken, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Different, Information, Reason

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Pleasure, Dependable

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• Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

  John William Strutt

  Discovery, Library, Firsts

  "Classification and indexing in science". Book by Brian Campbell Vickery, 1958.

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• In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy, and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside of our own heads.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Ambition, Past

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• These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Selfish, Past

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• I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for a living. It?s arduous work and the money is very uncertain. On those rare occasions when I wander into a bookstore it amazes me to see the avalanche of literature and semi-literature that is turned out weekly in this country. The people who write these things are either desperate for money or love starved. Why should anyone on a nice balmy day lock oneself in an office and hit a typewriter for hours on end. I think one of the greatest pleasures in the world is not writing.

  Groucho Marx

  Country, Nice, Writing

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• I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long. I dropped out of Yale after two years to pursue one of the most uncertain careers - modeling. That seemed like a crazy decision, especially coming from where I came from and given what Yale is. Most people I knew told me so. But I was following what my heart was telling me I needed to do. I took the risk. It could easily have not worked out, but it did. Phew!

  Joy Bryant

  Crazy, Heart, Two

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Luck, Shooting, Affair

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• Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.

  Orit Gadiesh

  Moving, Thinking, Crime

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• For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.

  Romany Malco

  Laughter, Drama, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.

  Chanakya

  Religious, World, Duration

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• If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Age, Missions, Relevant

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• The people that do understand how the brain works and how the chemicals are released in the brain when they feel uncomfortable, uncertain or doubtful they do it anyway. They overcome the biological and neurological releases by understanding what's causing them and moving forward anyway.

  John Assaraf

  Moving, People, Understanding

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our new friends Vladimir Putin, Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump. Or that they would do so without an economic plan, a trading strategy, or a credible leader, making the average Briton's future more uncertain than any time since the Blitz.

  Brian Reade

  Marine, Average, Long

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• There are times where I'd say the Oval Office, you use to gather the facts. The decisions you probably make late at night, or at least I do. But there are some times where you think you've made a decision, but during that walk, where you're announcing the decision, you've just got to make sure that, you're prepared to live with it, because as you know George, a lot of these decisions are not - the outcomes are uncertain.

  Barack Obama

  Night, Thinking, Office

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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