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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."
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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
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"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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"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
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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."
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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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"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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"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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"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."
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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
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"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."
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"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."
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"Custom is the great guide to human life."
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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
Religion
"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence."
Friendship
"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge."
Knowledge
"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."
Life
"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."
Beauty
"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom."
Life
"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
Design
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