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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 regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
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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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"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor."
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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."
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"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."
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"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."
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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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"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."
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"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."
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"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."
Man
"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."
Death
"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
Man
"Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories."
Truth
"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."
Poetry
"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."
Nothing
"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
Marriage
"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."
Certainty
"It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it."
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"The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children."
God
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