"There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing."
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"One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered."
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"The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become."
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"The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it."
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"I can always tell how stupid someone is by how certain they are about what they're saying."
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"Money has a certain kind of amnesty."
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"Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence."
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"Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics."
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"The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain."
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"Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting."
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"I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not."
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"There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get."
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"There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used."
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"Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians."
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"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them."
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"There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable."
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"She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense."
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"...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments."
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"We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine."
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"But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves."
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