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• Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

  Adam Smith

  Travel, Business, Adventure

  Adam Smith (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)”, p.531, Delphi Classics

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• At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

  Gwen Stefani

  Family, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Motivational, Success, Work

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• There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Arrogance, Bees

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

  Unknown

  Hate, Power, Sisterhood

  "Who Won’t Be Voting for Trump" by Eliot Weinberger, London Review of Books, Volume 38, No.20, pp. 3-6, www.lrb.co.uk. October 20, 2016.

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• One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

  William Butler Yeats

  Anger, Getting High, Ends

  William Butler Yeats (1973). “Memoirs”

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• There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.

  Emily Dickinson

  Winter, Light, Tunes

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.59, First Avenue Editions

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• And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Change, Life Lesson

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 25, 2016

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• Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

  Daniel Defoe

  Friars, Taxes, Faustus

  1726 History of the Devil, bk.2, ch.6. 0 See also Franklin 335:18.

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• At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

  Martin Puryear

  Art, Together, Sculpture

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• Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

  Wim Wenders

  Movie, Gambling, People

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• He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

  Henry Adams

  Cheer, Purpose, Politics

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.445, BookRix

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• Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

  Peter Ueberroth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

  Adrian Belew

  Vocabulary, Appreciate, Technique

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• There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

  Washington Irving

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

  'Tales of a Traveller' (1824) 'To the Reader'

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• In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
  In the midst of the storm - calm.
  In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
  In the many roads - a certain choice.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Strength, Encouraging, Choices

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• Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Love, Leadership, Pain

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• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life.

  Riffat Hassan

  Giving, Structure

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• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

  Hugh Downs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 05, 2011

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• The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Wisdom, Peace, Military

  Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 10 Nov. 1948, in Collected Writings (1967) vol. 1, p. 588

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• A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Faith, Stars

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  There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7

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