"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

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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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"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."

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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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"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach."

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