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How to use the word certainties in a Sentence?

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So many scientific certainties have been overthrown since our great-grandparents were alive, that’s part of the fun of the book.

– Jim WATSON / AFP

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Insurance is the security of uncertainties. Insecurity is the assurance of certainties.

– Clifford V. Villalon

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3 years ago

If the EU prompts such a change then we will effectively be heading towards a free market for labor in the European Union, as we know, the view is that markets regulate themselves, one consequence being that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Another view is that markets are unpredictable, hence the old certainties many in football are used to could disappear.

– Simon Chadwick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That's part of it, as the world opens up culturally and economically, there are fewer certainties than there ever were before, and far more multiplicity. So people are trying to invent themselves, and make it permanent.

– Professor Thomas

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

– Sir Francis Bacon

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13 years ago

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.

– Simone de Beauvoir

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13 years ago

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

– Milan Kundera, Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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13 years ago

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

– Francis Bacon

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14 years ago

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

– Francis Bacon

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14 years ago

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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14 years ago

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me.

– Simone de Beauvoir

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14 years ago

I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

– M. C. Escher

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14 years ago

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