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

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

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"It's already figured out."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."

Bret Harte, American Author

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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

George Eliot, British Author

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"That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise."

David Hume, Scottish Philosopher

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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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"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."

Pliny the Elder, Roman Author

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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."

Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge

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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."

May Sarton, American Poet

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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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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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"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."

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"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."

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"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."

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"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."

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"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."

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"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."

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"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."

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