"History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous……" — Johann Gustav Droysen

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• I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. — Bernardo Bertolucci
• The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If… — Nicolas Cage
• Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools… — Carl Sagan
• Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ...… — Unknown Author
• A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original… — G. H. Hardy
• My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of… — Odilon Redon
• Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous… — J. Michael Bishop
• The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from… — Gregg Easterbrook
• In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad… — Isabelle Huppert
• The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you… — Emily Blunt
• What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are… — Brian Eno
• I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous. — Keith Richards

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