"You have to test your hypothesis against other……" — Richard Holbrooke
"You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous."
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27 Quotes by Richard Holbrooke
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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the…
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A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of…
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Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other…
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws…
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Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect,…
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There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and…
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I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I…
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Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States…
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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a…
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The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience…
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The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the…
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More Certainty Quotes
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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
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
— Geraldine Brooks
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
— Robert Burns
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his…
— Lord Byron
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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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