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• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
• I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with… — Francis Bacon
• If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained… — William Barclay
• The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from… — Charles Baudelaire
• I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. — Simone de Beauvoir
• Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks
• There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. — Robert Burns
• If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his… — Lord Byron
• Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. — Albert Camus
• One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. — Thomas Carlyle
• It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner… — Jonathan Carroll

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