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• You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ignorance, Knowing, Doubt

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• The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude

  Peter L. Berger

  People, Lines, Today

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• The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Law, Attorney, Law Students

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1842). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected”, p.429

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• The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Gun, Marijuana, Clouds

  "Was Rice the Victim of Liberal Racism and Sexism?" by Byron Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2014.

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• Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

  Harold Geneen

  Business, Uncertainty And Doubt, Uncertainty Of Life

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• Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty.

  Dennis Lindley

  Matter, Personal Matter

  "Understanding Uncertainty" by Dennis Lindley, (p. 1), 2006.

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• The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

  John C. Calhoun

  Errors, Confusion, Transition

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1854). “A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTIONA ND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, p.90

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• I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Choices, Balance

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• First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision, as a consequence, is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly, we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but on how they were made.

  Robert Rubin

  Judging, Decision, Needs

  Robert E. Rubin's Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.treasury.gov. May 17, 1999.

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• Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

  Andy Grove

  Success, Fear, Business

  "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth". Book by Robert E Litan and William Baumol, p. 228, 2007.

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• I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Greek, States, Known

  "The Garden of Forking Paths". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.

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• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  Gavin Newsom

  Safety, Focus, Eras

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• The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

  Peter Mandelson

  Instability

  "EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Mind, Suffering

  "When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times". Book by Pema Chodron, December 24, 1996.

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• Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Comfort, Way

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• I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, America, People

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Inspirational, Teenager, Watches

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• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Creating, Trying, Warfare

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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

  Atheist, Ideas, Religion

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

  Bruce Jenner

  Life, Insecure, Insecurity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Essentials, Doubt And Certainty

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out, there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930's, it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it - the ascent of man against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  "The Ascent of Man" (Episode 11: "Knowledge or Certainty"), 1973.

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• There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat

  Haile Selassie

  Moving, People, Decision

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• The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments.

  Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

  Events, Enjoyment

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• Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

  Audre Lorde

  Forever, Texture, Each Day

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.126, Courier Dover Publications

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