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"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." »Karl Popper
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"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas
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""There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."" »Herbert Spencer
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"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men." »John Randolph
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"The very essence of love is uncertainty." »Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest
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"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." »Jacob Bronowski, 1976
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"uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process." »Harold Geneen
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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here." »Oprah Winfrey
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"Adolescence is a time of uncertainty, stuffed with expectations and glazed with rebellion" »Christiaan van der Spuy
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"Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful." »Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
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"If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch." »George W. Bush
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"uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." »R. I. Fitzhenry
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"Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity." »Unknown
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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers." »Erich Fromm
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"The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without." »Eric Hoffer
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"If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic." »Hazel Henderson
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"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism." »John Calhoun
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"For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief." »Sallust
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"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty." »Seneca
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"As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty." »John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
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"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." »Confucius
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"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." »Arthur Calwell
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"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." »Joseph Wood Krutch
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"A precedent embalms a principle." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor
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"Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency." »James Webb
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"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." »Henry Fielding
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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." »Benjamin Disraeli
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