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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to… — Samuel Johnson
I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and… — Kristen Schaal
At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself. — E. P. Thompson
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny… — Albert Camus
We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In a certain sense all men are historians. — Thomas Carlyle
In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order… — Ralph Washington Sockman
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right… — Neville Chamberlain
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. — John F. Kennedy
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake. — Quintilian
There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness. — Bertrand Russell
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for… — Rajneesh
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. — William Hazlitt
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances,… — Maya Angelou
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of… — Conrad Veidt
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our… — Blaise Pascal
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education… — Winston Churchill
Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should… — Benjamin Franklin
I love you like a river that begins as a solitary trickle in the mountains and gradually grows and joins other rivers until, after a… — Paulo Coelho
You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes things so dead… — Rajneesh

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