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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
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"No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it."

"Not all questions can be answered."

"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."

"The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself."

"I don't know what my future will bring me and it's terrifying. To stand before this vast expanse and know that the future could take away what matters most simply because that is the nature of indifferent chaos in the hands of wanton boys."

"I really don't know what's the best for you and for all out there."

"Who can tell when troubles may come?"

"There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness."

"You think that you know what will happen... but think again!"
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"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God."

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."

"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals."

"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"

"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."

"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer."

"It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country."
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