"Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives."
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"I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters."
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"You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion."
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"There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain"
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"We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff."
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"I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias."
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"Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen."
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"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."
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"Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people."
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"I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for."
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"The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger."
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"If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty."
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"If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive."
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"When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling."
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"Certain signs precede certain events."
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"Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution."
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"It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind."
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"I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my time learning how to play. You didn't spend time learning how to play, therefore, you are not a musician.""
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"For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed."
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"To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension."
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