"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."
"The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become."
"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."
"I can always tell how stupid someone is by how certain they are about what they're saying."
"Money has a certain kind of amnesty."
"Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence."
"Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics."
"The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain."
"Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting."
"I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not."
"There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get."
"There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used."
"Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians."
"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them."
"There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable."
"She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense."
"...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments."
"We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine."
"But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves."