"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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"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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"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

Loren Eiseley, American Scientist

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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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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."

Stanislaus I, Polish Royalty

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"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."

Michael Crichton, American Author

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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."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

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"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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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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"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."

William Barclay, Scottish Theologian

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"Perseverance guarantees success."

Rajen Jani, Indian Author

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