Certain Quotes
7889 quotes by 4860 authors
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Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.
— Alan Ayckbourn
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Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design,…
— Frederic Flach
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Video is just one part of a marketing plan. It fits certain messages & people better than others.
— Steve Garfield
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For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value.…
— Tycho Brahe
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The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes…
— Hans Sloane
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Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
— Willard Libby
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on…
— Edmund Ezra Day
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When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in everything only His…
— Jane Frances de Chantal
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Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and…
— Catherine of Genoa
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Your real life is in the here and now. Once you figure out what kinds of experiences cause you to feel certain ways, you can…
— G. Alan Marlatt
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Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start to see what…
— Eyvind Earle
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The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who…
— Daniel H. Pink
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
— David Dixon
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...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But…
— Christiaan Huygens
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any…
— Andreas Osiander
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A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same certain and…
— Johannes Peter Muller
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We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights,…
— David Boaz
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Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed,…
— Richard Dixon Oldham
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