"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."

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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."

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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."

Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge

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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."

William Gibson, American Writer

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"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

Pliny The Elder, Roman Author

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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

George Eliot, British Author

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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"It's already figured out."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

Conor Cruise O'Brien, Irish Politician

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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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