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  • Ezra Pound A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Aesop A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • John Steinbeck A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Lord George Byron A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Charles Dickens A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • George H. Mead A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
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  • Bill Cosby A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Charles F. Kettering A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Bee Wilson A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Coco Chanel A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Aristotle A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bradley Whitford Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    German musician and composer
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  • Adam Smith Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Jerry Frankhauser Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
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  • Cynthia Ozick After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.
    Cynthia Ozick
    American writer (1928 - )
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  • Aristotle Onassis After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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