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• We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

  Tony Hancock

  Thinking, Trying, Affected

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• Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

  Wei Jingsheng

  Survival, Democracy, Development

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• There's a domino effect with certain things you say.

  Johnny Vegas

  Domino Effect, Effects

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• I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

  Tom Clancy

  Character, Thinking, Goes On

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• Every child is created uniquely by God. God puts a certain formula in the heart of every child. And it is the parents' challenge to figure out the combination. We need to spend time studying, looking, listening, and observing.

  David Jeremiah

  Children, Heart, Parent

  Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “The Joy of Encouragement: Unlock the Power of Building Others Up”, p.122, Multnomah

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• There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Kindness, Animal

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• We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wood carved into an acorn shape, a difference not always readily apparent to the naked eye. The difference is there even if the acorn never has the opportunity to plant itself and become an oak. Remembering its potential changes the way in which we think of the acorn and react to it. How we value it. If an acorn were conscious, knowing its potential would change the way that it might think and feel about itself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Eye, Opportunity, Thinking

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• One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Distance, Taken

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by multiplying these by two or four, I obtain a definite number of colour fields that I multiply yet again by two, etc. But the complete realization of this project demands a great deal of time and work.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Black And White, Two

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• To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

  Victor Hugo

  Cities, Two, Paris

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

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• Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Struggle, Safety, Perfect

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• When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

  Francois Fenelon

  Giving, Simplicity, Serenity

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• Are the atoms of the dextroacid (tartaric) grouped in the spirals of a right-hand helix or situated at the angles of an irregular tetrahedron, or arranged in such or such particular unsymmetrical fashion? We are unable to reply to these questions. But there can be no reason for doubting that the grouping of the atoms has an unsymmetrical arrangement with a non-superimposable image. It is not less certain that the atoms of the laevo-acid realize precisely an unsymmetrical arrangement of the inverse of the above.

  Louis Pasteur

  Fashion, Hands, Doubt

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• But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.

  Langston Hughes

  Song, America, Long

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.133, University of Missouri Press

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• The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain, but they also increase. In fact, once properly developed, the mind's good qualities eventually increase indefinitely. Therefore spiritual practice brings us long-term happiness and inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Practice, Long

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• Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Quality, Coins

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.143

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• You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Acceptance, Self, Sin

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Punishment, Two, Prison

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.93

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• All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds. What they want, primarily, is the job; the necessary equipment of unescapable issues, immutable principles and soaring ideals can wait until it becomes more certain which way the mob will be whooping.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Jobs, Issues

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• I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

  John Dryden

  Evil, May, Valiant

  John Dryden (1976). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV: Plays: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, Amphitryon”, p.248, Univ of California Press

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• I don't like quintessential certitude.

  Louise Bogan

  Quintessential, Certitude

  Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

  Tommy Franks

  Dream, World, Only Time

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• This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!

  Robert James Waller

  Once In A Lifetime, Kind, Lifetime

  "Fictional character: Robert Kincaid". "The Bridges of Madison County", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• What can we say with certainty?

  Voltaire

  Certainty

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• Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It was a very unfettered, spiritual experience.

  Alanis Morissette

  Spiritual, Song, Way

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