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"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
Old
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
Experience
"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."
Thought
"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
Idea
"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."
Power
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
Direction
"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."
Life
"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles."
Money
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
Equality
"Carve every word before you let it fall."
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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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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
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"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."
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"Nothing consoles and comforts like certainty does."
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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
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"It's already figured out."
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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
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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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"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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"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."
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