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• To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.97, Stanford University Press

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• The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mean, Way, Facts

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.

  Jay Leno

  Fda, Drug, Attention

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• I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, Bills, Sin

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Needs, Profit, Stage

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.

  Milton Friedman

  Target, Use, Today

  Financial Times (UK), June 7, 2003.

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• Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power.... But most men earn less than they want, barely the minimum wage. They're drones. They do stuff they don't want to do to support their families, and they're not sure why they do it. They don't know what they're doing half the time, and any time we stick up for ourselves, we're pigs because we don't know how to articulate our frustrations and joys.

  Tim Allen

  Self Esteem, Frustration, Men

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• I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Thinking, Rocks, Feet

  Elizabeth Prentiss (2015). “Thoughts Concerning the King”, p.47

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• It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!

  Amber Benson

  Reality, Interesting, Three

  "Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's". www.bbc.co.uk. December 10, 2003.

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• Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has become too comfortable, at least in the West. I'm not sure I agree. It's a mark of civilization to encourage the arts and the life of the mind.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Art, Thinking, Civilization

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• I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

  Alex Garland

  Beach, Giving Up, Stubborn

  Interview with Dennis Widmyer, chuckpalahniuk.net. July 30, 2007.

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• It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.

  Angelina Jolie

  Artist, Scary, Done

  "Angelina Jolie Talks MALEFICENT, Getting into Character, Wearing the Costume and Horns, Directing UNBROKEN, Balacing Work and Family, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Science usually operates in sort of three modes, things that are well established, we know what we're talking about, more highly confident. There are competing explanations, we have a pretty good idea, but we're not sure. And then things are speculative.

  Stephen Schneider

  Talking, Ideas, Three

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• Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.

  Alan Keyes

  Abortion, Black, Mind

  Alan Keyes' Speech during Renew America rally at the McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. March 8, 2000.

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• I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Lines, Rhyming

  "Harp's Delight - An interview with Joanna Newsom". Interview with Michael Cramer, www.dustedmagazine.com.

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• If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Israel, People

  Hillary Clinton's Hanukkah dinner speech at Yeshiva University, December 2005.

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• Manitoba... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats?

  James Nicoll

  Cat, Thinking, Tourism

  Usenet article, 2003.

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• I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.

  Adam Rapp

  Girl, Dog, Years

  Adam Rapp (2010). “Punkzilla”, p.2, Candlewick Press

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• As for UFO's ... I do believe there is a dimension that we don't understand. Not sure about little green martians, though.

  David Shuster

  Believe, Green, Littles

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• There are a lot of people who say we need to cut the amount of money that's spent in politics. I'm not sure that I agree. But I am sure that if you were talking about cutting the amount of money spent in politics, the media would have a strong interest in opposing you, because they make an enormous amount of money from political advertisements.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Strong, Cutting, Media

  "Lawrence Lessig Has a 'Moonshot' Plan to Halt Our Slide Toward Plutocracy". Interview with Joshua Holland, billmoyers.com. April 25, 2014.

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• So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

  Jack McDevitt

  Moving, Light, Politician

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

  Sara Sheridan

  Mother, Balance, Easier

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• I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be Take Me to Church, but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.

  Hozier

  Song, People, Church

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• I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from 'Ulysses', but against that, you have to weigh the millions of lives that have been ruined by the futile attempts to read it.

  Kevin Myers

  Book, People, Language

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• Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

  Brendan Fraser

  Wheels, Ancestor

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

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