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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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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."
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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."
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"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."
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"Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive."
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"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."
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"I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy."
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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."
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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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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
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"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
Trust
"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom."
Life
"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."
Life
"A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century."
History
"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge."
Knowledge
"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
Government
"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."
Fact
"The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."
History
"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."
Certainty
"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian."
Christian
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