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• The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.

  Joel Garreau

  Cancer, Wind, Waiting

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.183, Broadway Books

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• This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with so many uncertain names, with so many sad labels, with so many pompous letters, with so much yours and mine, with so much signing of papers. I intend to confuse things, to unite them, make them new-born intermingle them, undress them, until the light of the world has the unity of the ocean, a generous wholeness, a fragrance alive and crackling.

  Pablo Neruda

  Beauty, Ocean, Mean

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• Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

  Lena Dunham

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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• It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Spring, Fall

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3129, GENERAL PRESS

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• Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a world the way a religious person lives in the world; I keep living in a world that I know to be enchanted, and not left alone. I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Religious, Doubt, World

  Lauren F. Winner (2012). “Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love You, Ego, And Love

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• What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

  Euripides

  Change, Pride, Greatness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

  George W. Bush

  Uncertain Times, Economy, Certainty

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• I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blessed, Thinking, Glimpse

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.223, Courier Corporation

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• Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Hurt, Tired, Challenges

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• Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Stars, Loneliness, Wings

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.56, Xist Publishing

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• Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

  Martin Luther

  Promise, Mind, Riches

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• I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

  David Levithan

  Want

  David Levithan (2015). “Another Day”, p.105, Egmont UK

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• An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

  Alberto Moravia

  Heart, Hands, Evil

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.75, New York Review of Books

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• It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Past, People, Seductive

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• These entities are clever enough to make Strieber think they care about him. Yet his torment by them never ceases. Whatever his relationship to the entities, and he increasingly concludes that their involvement with him is something 'good,' he also remains terrified of them and uncertain as to what they are.

  John Ankerberg

  Clever, Thinking, Care

  John Ankerberg (1992). “The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena”, Harvest House Pub

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• There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Differences, Fear Nothing, Starks

  J. A. Redmerski (2013). “Killing Sarai”, p.111, J.A. Redmerski

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• You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs which are beautifully lit, and they tell their stories and you do that with another 10 people and you then construct a story from what they say. You do a sort of paper thing, and then you put some images in-between, and that's your film. And that's so not what I think is a good documentary. It can be so much more than that, it should be much more of an adventure and much more uncertain... like real things are.

  Nick Broomfield

  Real, Adventure, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Knowledge, Differences

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• When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

  Rollo May

  Life, Falling In Love, Being In Love

  "Love & Will".

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• A ruddy drop of manly blood
  The surging sea outweighs;
  The world uncertain comes and goes,
  The lover rooted stays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Blood, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.339, Library of America

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• Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Degrees, Wickedness

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.53

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• Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

  Brian Herbert

  Desire, Canvas

  Brian Herbert (2003). “Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert”, p.389, Macmillan

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• Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
  And give us not to think so far away
  As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
  All simply in the springing of the year.
  
  Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
  Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
  And make us happy in the happy bees,
  The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

  Robert Frost

  Spring, Flower, Thinking

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, p.10, Delphi Classics

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• Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Buddhist, Real, Compassion

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