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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

~Conor Cruise O'Brien

Topics: Appeal Certainty Comfortable Down Nations Safely United United Nations Will You

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There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Bring Certainty History How Lives Long Long History People Dna

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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

~Dale T. Mortensen

Topics: Acceptable Alternative Benefit Benefits Better Certainty Continue Evaluation Even Excess Expectations Expected Formation Future House Job Known Never Offers Option Partner Prospective Requires Search Stream Then Value

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What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

~David Eagleman

Topics: Always Any Authors Books Bookstore Certainty Evidence Find Me Number Some Story Surprised Tell Though True Walk Written You

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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

~Denis Diderot

Topics: Bad Certainty Confuse Different Different Things Entirely Follows Only Revealed Revelation Theologian Things Truths Very Would

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Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Always Appear Bad Certainty Conviction Harsh Least Lends Poems Some Sort Then Things Think Too Until

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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

~Edward Coke

Topics: Cause Certainty Mother Quiet Repose Uncertainty

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Thrones, dominations, principalities know now with a terrible certainty that mere force of arms has no power which compares with that living word of the crucified Nazarene, that bears with it Eternal Life, and directs the duty of a world of men whom he can lead, but who bend no knee to power.

~Edward Everett Hale

Topics: Arms Bears Bend Certainty Compares Crucified Duty Eternal Eternal Life Force He Knee Know Lead Life Living Men Mere Now Power Terrible Which Who Whom Word World

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A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.

~Edwin Meese

Topics: Application Certainty Consistency Constitution Essential Guidance Guides Law Legal Oral Reminds Unlike Us Utterly Way Written

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It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need.

~Elaine Chao

Topics: Add Additional American Automatic Been Certain Certainty Death Death And Taxes Due Enrollment Fewer Insurance Life Loans Long Loss Misfortune Need Only Retirement Said Savings Stressful Suffer Taxes Things Time Unnecessary Would

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