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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
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Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
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Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.
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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.
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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
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Dear Chicago, when I wake up in the morning and see your skyline - the terra cotta of the Wrigley Building, the height of the Willis Tower, the shiny sides of my beloved Trump Tower - I know I'm home. I feel a certain energy walking between your spires, but recognize that what makes you special to me is that my roots are here.
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Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
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