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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Yet there be certain times in a young manâ€™s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared… — Rudyard Kipling
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and… — Jack Kerouac
What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,'… — N. T. Wright
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that… — Jorge Luis Borges
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions… — Herbert Marcuse
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. — Emily Dickinson
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. — Charles Dickens
A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and… — Jodi Picoult
truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong. — Martin Heidegger
Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain… — Viktor E. Frankl
you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more… — Charlotte Bronte
The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were… — Marcel Proust
He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and… — Nicholas Sparks
at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits… — Margaret Atwood
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. — Jodi Picoult
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in… — Joan Didion
Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost… — Joel Osteen
Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of… — Steven Pinker

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