"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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"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."

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"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it."

Sibel Edmonds, American Public Servant

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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."

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"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

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"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

William Gibson, American Writer

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"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

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