"The only certainty is uncertainty"
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"A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses."
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"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
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"Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?"
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"The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time."
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"Certainty is missing the point entirely."
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"Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning."
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"If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy."
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"Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane."
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"Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature."
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"It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties."
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"I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance."
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"Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it."
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"God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts."
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"The only certainty is death."
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"To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought."
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"Certainty, not data, is knowledge."
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"Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise."
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"I have no talent for certainty."
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"it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime"
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