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The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.


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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
Robert M. Pirsig
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
Sylvia Earle
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Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
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I leave from where the apostle arrived.


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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.


Richard Armour
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There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.


Sandra Day O'Connor
Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Huxley
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Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.


Edwin Louis Cole
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.


William Gibson
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.


Miguel de Cervantes
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I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.


Gene Kelly
When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Yul Brynner
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Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel
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I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'


Mario Testino
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.


Jack Palance
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When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.
Noam Chomsky