Certain Quotes
7889 quotes by 4860 authors
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... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.
— Henrik Svensmark
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the…
— Richard Owen
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What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return
— Barack Obama
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Grace is a certain beginning of glory in us.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous demands which he…
— Watchman Nee
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It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and…
— Neil Postman
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Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have…
— Milton Friedman
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but…
— Noam Chomsky
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An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with the objective of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.
— Marvin J. Ashton
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I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian-…
— Adolf Hitler
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The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of…
— Pope Leo XIII
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That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left…
— Saint Augustine
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No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone…
— Carl Jung
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This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
— Herman Melville
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We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest,…
— Oswald Chambers
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