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There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan. — George Carlin
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are… — Tertullian
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. — Hippocrates
Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as… — George Santayana
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain… — Abraham Lincoln
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap. — Thomas Jefferson
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons… — Lionel Trilling
You should be certain that angels are protecting you when you go to sleep. Yea, that they are protecting you also in all your business,… — Martin Luther
First of all, who cares if people hate you? There's always a guarantee that certain people will dislike you. There's never any guarantee that anyone… — Chelsea Handler
Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise,… — Joseph Conrad
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.… — Ambrose Bierce
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is. — F. H. Bradley
The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. — Esther Hicks
Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the… — Sun Tzu
Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include a large segment… — Adam Schiff
Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm… — Michael Jordan
Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it… — Shaquille O'Neal
The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
It's a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to… — Hendrik Hertzberg

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