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Uncertainty Quotes
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
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"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."
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"If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty."
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"Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing."
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"Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word."
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"If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets."
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"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."
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"What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?"
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"You think that you know what will happen... but think again!"
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"There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty."
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"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."
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"In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying."
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"My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business..."
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"We are not certain we are never certain."
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"I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that."
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"I really don't know what's the best for you and for all out there."
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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."
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"Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control."
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"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."
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"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
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"There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!"
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"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."
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"Probably you are right, probably not... who knows?"
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"Who can tell when troubles may come?"
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"I dont know what happens to country."
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"Sure, she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. "What could go wrong?Michael's eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean, she said."
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"I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined."
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