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"The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty."
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"When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do."
"Choices are abundant, it is the right decision which is the rare one!"
"The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity."
"It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they call 'middle-of-the-road' in most cases just means you have a hard time figuring out who between options is dumber. So quite often those who refused to decide were, after all, the bold individuals, the influential ones, the creative ones, those who snatched their own authority."
"It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts."
"All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last."
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"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."
"So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
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