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Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. — Arthur Eddington
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it… — Leonhard Euler
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. — David Hilbert
As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil. — Martin Luther
In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never… — Ramana Maharshi
Willpower should be understood to be the strength of the mind, which makes it capable of meeting success or failure with equanimity. Â It is… — Ramana Maharshi
Lately, I cant shake the feeling that Ive been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I cant account for most of… — Chris Ware
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things. — Harvey Pekar
You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for… — Richard Bandler
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation. — Ruth Benedict
And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the… — Penelope Lively
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit… — Penelope Lively
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in… — John Bunyan
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in… — Sitting Bull
Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount… — Julia Child
It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a… — M.F.K. Fisher
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same… — Lorrie Moore
I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, itâ€™s that theyâ€™re dog, and… — Amy Hempel
You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place… — Tobias Wolff

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