"Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires."
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"We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time."
"In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses."
"Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others."
"Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth."
"There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes."
"People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it."
"And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me."
"Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)"
"Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability."
"It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place."
"Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on."
"She was "a woman of uncertain age."
"No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be."
"I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry."
"I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain."
"Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain)."
"How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart."
"Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain."