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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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"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
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"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."
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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."
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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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"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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"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."
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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
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"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
Mistake

"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."
Philosophy

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
Man

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
People

"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love

"The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech."
Heart

"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."
Ambition

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
People

"We pardon to the extent that we love."
Love

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
Man
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