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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."
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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."
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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."
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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
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"When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges."
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"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."
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"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."
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"I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy."
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"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor."
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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
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"Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive."
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"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."
Virtue
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
Education
"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
Government
"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."
Certainty
"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
Nothing
"History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice."
History
"The family is the nucleus of civilization."
Family
"Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard."
History
"If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous."
Law
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
People
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