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"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."
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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."

"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."

"God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course."

"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."
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