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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.


Charles William Eliot

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CHARLES W. ELIOT on behalf of Charles, William, Harry and all my family and of all the Spencer family with us today.
EARL SPENCER Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
MURRAY GELL-MANN Stop living the life with possibilities and probabilities, live the life with certainties.
AMIT KALANTRI Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or...
MICHAEL SHERMER Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE Sun shines on my back as I walk away
Sun shines on my chest and I return
The fall air is c...
BRENT M. JONES I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
ANTONIO PORCHIA Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray yo...
DAVID GEMMELL Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're ...
SAM KEAN the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
CHARLES BUKOWSKI No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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CHRISTINE ANDERSON If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. The...
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LOIS LOWRY We do not have any government funds. We operate strictly on the proceeds of our clients and memorial...
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DARREN DOPP When we had William, we had to find a date in the diary that suited Charles and his polo. William ha...
PRINCESS DIANA If (a criminal suspect) makes a million in drug money and plows it into a legitimate business, you c...
CHARLES KELLY No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.
KATE MIDDLETON Proxies should be competent, adequately informed, emotionally stable and committed to your interests...
DR. BARRY TEPPERMAN You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cann...
HARRY S TRUMAN I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Wi...
JONATHAN ANDERSON I don't really have that many judgements on things, or crazy statements that I feel like I have ...
RITA ORA All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should ch...
THOMAS SOWELL by putting a premium on his beliefs, not a price on his bedroom.
CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolifi...
JOHN UPDIKE Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
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RICK RIORDAN I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man an...
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NOLAN DOESKEN Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgemen...
ALBERT EINSTEIN proceeds, product or instrumentality of a crime.
CHARLES KELLY A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.
PHYLLIS A. WHITNEY I, a singular proper noun, would go on, if always in a conditional tense.
JOHN GREEN When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?”
Your strengt...
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RYAN TOOHEY The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs o...
MARIO CUOMO You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cann...
HARRY S TRUMAN The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...
WALTER BAGEHOT My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have i...
MALCOLM X Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that t...
HOPE BRADFORD You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your fu...
JODI PICOULT It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you rea...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put ...
TUPAC SHAKUR You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
ALBERT CAMUS I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
MARK TWAIN Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones...
MAUREEN JOHNSON The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY In your dreams, you will find in the ocean of your memory that people from the past will come and vi...
GARY F EVANS... There may be situations in life when one finds almost entire man community in network is completely ...
ANUJ SOMANY Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, ...
NICK HORNBY Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on...
ANNE RICE There is times in your life, when you just got to pick up everything and move on. Put up your tears,...
JENNY HESTOR No matter how much we try to ignore the past,if we just don't deal with it and move on it will alway...
GUNDO MULAUDZI If you are not 15 minutes early, then you are late.
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RAINER MARIA RILKE Explain it to me."
But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason ...
SARAH DESSEN Life is a gift...
Life is a test...
Life is temporary assignment....
RICK WARREN Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-A...
JOHN GREEN Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life...
C. JOYBELL C. Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Not only is he diametrically opposed to all that the NAACP has worked for, but ... is intent on prom...
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STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rath...
DOUGLAS WOOD All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
ILANA GLAZER People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what ...
BLAISE PASCAL I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the im...
RICHARD WRIGHT You miss a lot of a person’s life when you don’t keep in touch. Maybe that’s the point.
BRYANT A. LONEY The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...
WALTER BAGEHOT Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy.
HOWARD SCHULTZ As a result, at a meeting of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, Prince William and the Queen the...
ROBERT JOBSON Move on fast, kiss my a*s
KAYLA HANSELL I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
NANCY PICKARD Walking on a path of uncertainties,
Shuffling on the probabilities of uncertainties,
Wag...
PUSHPA RANA What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, hear...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can...
ELIZABETH GILBERT If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proxi...
GARY RUDZ Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there wa...
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GEORGE ELIOT The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a re...
GEORGE ELIOT To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue...
GEORGE ELIOT But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
GEORGE ELIOT We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, a...
EDEN ELIOT Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruit...
GEORGE ELIOT She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and ma...
GEORGE ELIOT Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is bette...
GEORGE ELIOT In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
GEORGE ELIOT Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the go...
GEORGE ELIOT To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any...
GEORGE ELIOT Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
GEORGE ELIOT He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were...
GEORGE ELIOT Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
GEORGE ELIOT Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a hi...
GEORGE ELIOT Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
GEORGE ELIOT The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come t...
GEORGE ELIOT