"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."

Certainty, Judgment, Order, Scripture

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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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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."

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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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William Barclay, Scottish Theologian

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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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