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Uncertainty Quotes
"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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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
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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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"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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"Live in the mysterious. Accepting and being fully at peace with not knowing what's going to happen in the future will allow us to be fully present and more peaceful in the present."
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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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"I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions."
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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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"I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. It's like everyone else has their entire future mapped out except for me."
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"There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try, it will always spring back toward a determined present. Myself, I do not worry about such trivialities. I simply sell ties to anyone who wants to buy one..."
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"When all are wrong, everyone is right."
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"There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty."
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"In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying."
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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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"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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"What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?"
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"Nobody knows the aftermath."
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"The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe."
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"I dont know what happens to country."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"You think that you know what will happen... but think again!"
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"Probably you are right, probably not... who knows?"
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"We are not certain we are never certain."
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"My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business..."
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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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"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."
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"You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my mother standing out in front of the museum when time flickered and the light went funny, uncertainties hovering on the edge of a vast brightness. the stray chance that might, or might not, change everything."
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"I really don't know what's the best for you and for all out there."
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"Who can tell when troubles may come?"
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"Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of the Offical that day in the greenspace, I think a part of me hasn't felt at peace. It was as though I saw for the first time that life could branch into different paths, take different directions."
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"Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?"
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"Let certain things be uncertain.Appreciate the puzzle that life is, insofar as I know, after a scheme of steps, all Crosswords have a solution, and every Sudoku makes a lot of sense."
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"Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation."
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"It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing."
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"She was always looking for guarantees in a world of none."
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"In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty..."
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"Not all questions can be answered."
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"There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness."
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"The future is a teenage crackhead who makes shit up as he goes along."
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