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Tag Name "Uncertainty" (505)

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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago
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In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.
John Steinbeck
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It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.
P. G. Wodehouse
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To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.
Peter Adamson
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Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.
Martin Luther
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
Irene Rosenfeld
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The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
Edgar Morin
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
Samuel Johnson
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Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.
Rex Brandt
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When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.
Marieta Maglas
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It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before-human experience-is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know.
Ray Lyman Wilbur
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I think the economy is the point of greatest uncertainty for most people.
Don Iveson
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In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.
Stephen Burt
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She hesitated, then reached out to Jared in her mind, and uncertainty washed away in the wave of reassurance she got back.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
Alain de Botton
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Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
Carre Otis
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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
Bernard Beckett
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No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know that the more power you give a single individual in the face of complexity and uncertainty, the more likely it is that bad decisions will get made.
James Surowiecki
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If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.
Tony Robbins
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German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.
Franz Kafka
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Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Modeling in Europe at the beginning of my career was pretty hard, with the constant traveling and uncertainty as to where I was going to be from one day to the next. I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
Molly Sims
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