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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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"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."
"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."
"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."
"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."
"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."
"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."
"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."
"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."
"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."
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"Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation."
"Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything."
"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail."
"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."
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