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• Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

  John Allen Paulos

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.5, Basic Books

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• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Future

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

  Anatole France

  Fear, Future, Men

  Anatole France (2007). “Golden Tales of Anatole France”, p.12, Wildside Press LLC

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• Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

  Democritus

  Children, Worry, Battle

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• If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

  Paul Cezanne

  Strong, Block, Artist

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• The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

  Hannah Arendt

  Dubious, Matter, Violence

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Life, Pain

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.283

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• We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

  Warren Buffett

  United States, World, States

  "Warren Buffett on Recession, Taxing the Rich, and Capitalism's 'Regenerative Capacity'". Interview with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. September 23, 2010.

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• How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

  Og Mandino

  Sad, Past, Thinking

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• You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, People, Uncertain Times

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• The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

  Elia Kazan

  Anticipate, Ambivalent

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• The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

  T. E. Brown

  Phonetics, Schemes

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• The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

  Jane Addams

  Inspiring, Peace, Equality

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Roles, Unnecessary

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

  Willa Cather

  Forgiveness, Fall, Dark

  Willa Cather (1938). “The novels and stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193

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• "Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."

  Werner Heisenberg

  Mean Girls, Arrogance, Doe

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• Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

  George Washington

  Life, Men, Mind

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.152

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• In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Skepticism, Certainty

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

  Aldrich Ames

  Tasks, Credit, Persons

  Letter from his cell at the Allenwood Federal Penitentiary to Stephen Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, November 2000; cited on the FAS website. Ames, you see, was not at fault; it was those who trusted him.

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• The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Lonely, Finals, May

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• I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

  Steve Case

  Art, Thinking, Important

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• The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

  George Saintsbury

  Artist, Giving, Transition

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.209, tredition

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• One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.

  John Berger

  Life, Doctors, Knowing

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• Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Real, Past, History

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