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• Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Giving, Suffering, Important

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• Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Years, Judgement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.334, Modern Library

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• Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Done, Experiments, Ifs

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• We have to uphold the EU's core values. These days, people are nervous and uncertain because of security threats. In this kind of atmosphere, fear and hatred are on the rise. We need to safeguard security, but we also have to be vigilant and avoid handing over all power to those who say they are here to ensure security.

  Vera Jourova

  People, Hatred, Atmosphere

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My personality has become one that tends to focus and move forward, yes. But I was not like that when I was 16 or 23, I think. I was much more uncertain, unconfident and inwards looking. Then via certain techniques I learned from psychotherapy, magick and just life in general I become more focused, confident and happy within myself.

  Sean Michael Wilson

  Moving, Thinking, Personality

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fog, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.101, Princeton University Press

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• In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship.

  Dean Koontz

  Space, Water, Love And Friendship

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.47, Bantam

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• I always think of it like this: Rather than be the sun to someone and light up everything around them, I want to be the moon and light the way just a little in front of them when they are lost or uncertain in the darkness, and always be there with them when they look up. That’s my way of living.

  Gackt

  Moon, Thinking, Light

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• Willow, things feel more uncertain than ever now," He said finally. "But I love you. For as long as I live - if that's fifty years from now, or just next week - I'll love you.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Love You, Next Week, Years

  L.A. Weatherly (2011). “Angel Fire: The Angel Trilogy”, p.344, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.

  Julian Barnes

  Strong, Memories, Confused

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• I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

  Timothy Egan

  Believe, Facts

  Timothy Egan (2012). “Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Book, Artist, Men

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• There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

  Agatha Christie

  Hands, Age, Detectives

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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• Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Rumor, Sound, Ears

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• Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Giving, Trying, Investing

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• There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.

  Hal Borland

  Weather, Fog, Moisture

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• We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Self, Heaven

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1993, Delphi Classics

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• The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Believe, Science

  1985 Other People's Trades,'News from the Sky' (translated by Raymond Rosenthal,1989).

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• ... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

  Pat Robertson

  Evil, Timing, Judgment

  Pat Robertson (1984). “Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is better to run the risk of being considered indecisive, better to be uncertain and not promise, than to promise and not fulfill.

  Oswald Chambers

  Running, Risk, Promise

  Oswald Chambers (1997). “God's Workmanship: And, He Shall Glorify Me”, Discovery House Pub

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• How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Ignorance, Past, House

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• Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.

  John Lahr

  Writing, Mean, Self

  "Reality Checks" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. May 31, 2010.

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• This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

  Vaclav Havel

  Wise, Confusing, Language

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• Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Thinking, What Matters

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.64, Profile Books

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• We see and understand more about our behaviors.  We come aware.  And aware.  And aware. . . Often, we feel uncertain about what to do with all this awareness.

  Melody Beattie

  Awareness, Behavior, Feels

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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