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So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and… — Bruno Schulz
Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are… — Samuel Johnson
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for… — Eric Hoffer
Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living… — Mahatma Gandhi
There's certain things that you cannot cross, no matter who you are, what you're doing or where you're coming from. — Wladimir Klitschko
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. — William Gilmore Simms
All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is… — H. L. Mencken
JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion. — Ambrose Bierce
I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant. — John Dryden
Certain books come to meet me, as do people. — Elizabeth Bowen
Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness. — William Ralph Inge
But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life… — Carolyn Mackler
I don't like quintessential certitude. — Louise Bogan
The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world. — Tommy Franks
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. — May Sarton
One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure. — Doris Lessing
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime! — Robert James Waller
What can we say with certainty? — Voltaire
I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust. — Phil Jackson
Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It… — Alanis Morissette
Greenspan advised the American people to buy - he repeated the old mantra: 'spending is patriotic'. He also managed to convince them that if they… — Gilad Atzmon
Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even… — Richard Owen
I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal… — Elizabeth Smart
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost… — Edsger Dijkstra
You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around. — Larry Tesler

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