"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

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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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"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."

Bret Harte, American Author

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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

Voltaire, French Writer

Certainty, Doubt

"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."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

Certainty, Judgment, Order, Scripture

"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it."

Sibel Edmonds, American Public Servant

Certainty, Chance

"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Certainty, Comfort, Truth, Peace

"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

Certainty, Law, Principles, Questions

"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

Certainty, Eyes

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

Rem Koolhaas, Dutch Architect

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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Certainty, Man, Meaning, Quest

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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."

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"We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

Unity

"All would live long but none would be old."

Life

"None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing."

Nature

"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas."

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"Applause waits on success."

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"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us."

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

"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

"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."

"Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it."

"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."

"When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty."

"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."

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."

"God helps them that helps themselves."

"Well done is better than well said."

"To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."

"We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

"All would live long but none would be old."

"None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing."

"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas."

"Applause waits on success."

"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us."