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"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first." »Ernestine Ulmer
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"Human science is an uncertain guess." »Edward G. Prior
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"O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!" »William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3
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"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." »Theodore Hesburgh
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"Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." »Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532
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"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'" »Athenus
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"The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors." »Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
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"My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you." »Saint Augustine, Confessions
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"What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation." »Nikos Kazantzakis
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"Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness." »John Keats
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