Quotes with sure-footedness

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  • Mark Twain Everything you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ann Landers Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Lord Mansfield Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.
    Lord Mansfield
    British barrister, politician and judge (1705 - 1793)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant How can I be sure I’ve succeeded, if I can’t remember what I was trying to do?
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Max Weber Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics.
    Max Weber
    German economist, historian and sociologist (1864 - 1920)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • E. B. White The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Valerie Solanas To be sure he's a ''Man,'' the male must see to it that the female be clearly a ''Woman,'' the opposite of a ''Man,'' that is, the female must act like a faggot.
    Valerie Solanas
    American feminist and author (1936 - 1988)
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  • Albert Einstein Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Joseph Addison What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Lord George Byron 't Is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; I a book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
    English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Gordon Byron 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
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  • Lord George Byron 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Viola A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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