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I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. ↗

— George Crumb

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened. ↗

— Ted Nelson

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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you. ↗

— Al Purdy

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There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty. ↗

— Nate Silver

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If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive. ↗

— Ron Silver

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