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When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.
- Meredith Monk
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In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that went nowhere, and a rush to invest in 'green' companies. As a consequence, uncertainty over policy - particularly over tax and regulatory policy - slowed the recovery.
- Glenn Hubbard
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I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances.
- Myron Scholes
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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
- Al Stewart
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I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.
- Jensen Ackles
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If you have an intuition of something but no hard evidence to back it up, you might kind of sort of go about putting that intuition into practice, because there's still some uncertainty if it's right or wrong.
- Daryl Morey
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The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.
- Peter Mandelson
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We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We see emotional areas before the crash that indicate a sense of uncertainty or dread.
- Colin Camerer
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Forecasts vary in horizon, from a few seconds up to a few days in financial markets, compared to from one to several months for macro variables. We have to provide uncertainty intervals around the central forecasts to indicate the extent to which we are unclear about the future.
- Clive Granger
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The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.
- Julian Baggini
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Whether baseball or football, we're tasked in front offices with making decisions under uncertainty. How do you corral that uncertainty in a way to make more consistently better decisions? That's very similar.
- Paul DePodesta
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
- Robert Burns
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The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
- Richard Curtis
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Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.
- Tim Crouch
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In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people.
- Simon Beaufoy
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
- Walter Rudolf Hess
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When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School of American Ballet. I loved ballet - its precision, the escape from uncertainty, and the music.
- Dianne Wiest
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I remembered what it was like: the weirdness, being the odd man out, trying to make my way around campus, and trying to figure out who my friends would be, who to steer clear of. I wrote it all down in a fanciful way - the feelings of alienation, the feelings of uncertainty, of being away from home for the first time.
- Paul Dini
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Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.
- Nayef Al-Rodhan
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In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.
- Joe Lieberman
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Uncertainty's not good for anybody.
- Roger Goodell
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In times of uncertainty - whether it's economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical - people often say that the only thing we can truly control is our attitudes. If that's true, then I'm going to spend today walking my 14-year-old dog on a free beach and treasuring the fact that she's still alive.
- Ali Liebegott
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Most of us feel some kind of uncertainty, with the population increasing and resources decreasing. We have to face these issues.
- Issey Miyake
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2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil and uncertainty. It was difficult for government analysts back in Washington to know just where they were on the map, let alone where they were heading.
- David Ignatius
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If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations.
- Richard V. Allen
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When faced with economic uncertainty, people don't want freedom. When they can't see their economic future, they want the nanny state.
- John J. McLaughlin
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
- Bob Beauprez
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We're not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse.
- Rhianna Pratchett
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
- H. R. McMaster
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Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.
- Jose Angel Gurria
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I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.
- Karen O
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
- Walter Kirn
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Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
- Edward Witten
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Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
- David Mallet
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty. But the point is to move quickly - faster than you are comfortable - because in hindsight, you will always wish you had made changes even sooner.
- Irene Rosenfeld
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We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitive. We will cut Washington wasteful spending and reduce the size of government. And we will reform Congress and restore your trust in government.
- Kevin McCarthy
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Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.
- Thomas H. Cook
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I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.
- Gerhard Richter
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Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.
- Al Gore
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The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
- Jurgen Habermas
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Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.
- Oscar Munoz
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I think it's necessary for VR to start with an early adopter audience that's highly engaged, and I think that means gamers. They're the ones who have the high-end hardware and the expertise and the patience to sort through the uncertainty of it all.
- Tim Sweeney
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The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated.
- Werner Heisenberg
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The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals; it does not restrict, for example, the exactness of a position measurement alone or a velocity measurement alone.
- Werner Heisenberg
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Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.
- Edward Witten
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Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have to make sure you have in your head and think about. There are a thousand ways things can go wrong.
- Atul Gawande
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To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.
- Sherwin B. Nuland
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I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
- Billy Collins
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In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.
- Marillyn Hewson
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
- Nate Silver
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You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.
- Ken Robinson
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When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.
- Jaggi Vasudev
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In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.
- Gregory Benford
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My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.
- Guler Sabanci
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In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.
- John Paulson
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As a caregiver, I always thought I had empathy for Chris's situation, and certainly one family member's disability affects the whole family dynamic in myriad ways. But as I go through various tests and discomforts and uncertainty about the future that cancer can bring, I feel a strong, visceral connection to what Chris went through.
- Dana Reeve
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Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.
- Raghuram Rajan
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
- Karen Thompson Walker
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That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.
- Kenneth Arrow
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The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
- John C. Calhoun
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Millions don't rally to the banner of Uncertainty.
- George Packer
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Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
- Luis Gutierrez
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Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.
- Charlie Sheen
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A truth which comes to us from outside always bears the stamp of uncertainty. We can believe only what appears to each one of us in our own hearts as truth.
- Rudolf Steiner
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As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.
- T. Boone Pickens
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The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.
- Daphne Koller
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One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.
- Drew Houston
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Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.
- Henry Petroski
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I intend to bring forth the hardships and uncertainty stuntmen face. India does not have adequate infrastructure or safety guidelines to protect them, and their work often goes unnoticed.
- Aishwarya R. Dhanush
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People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.
- Mark Manson
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The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
- Condoleezza Rice
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The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against traditions and institutions, whereas I was rebelling against the upheaval and uncertainty in my family.
- Sufjan Stevens
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Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
- Mohnish Pabrai
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
- Harold S. Geneen
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In a time of global uncertainty, rising terrorism, and enormous threats to peace, it's right that we as a country should now seek to extend our diplomatic footprint overseas.
- Leo Varadkar
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All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
- Dave Davies
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Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
- Julian Baggini
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There's merit in ministers being just open with the public about the inherent complexity and uncertainty of many of the decisions that they are taking.
- David Lidington
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There is a tremendous amount of oil in Iraq and it's still very, very cheap due to all the political uncertainty. So if you want to be a serious oil investor, I would say get yourself to Iraq in person and look around to find great opportunities.
- Porter Stansberry
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
- Vernon A. Walters
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Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
- Joyce Meyer
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The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.
- George W. Bush
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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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Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
- Jordan Peterson
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Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
- Alphonse Karr
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Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
- Brian Greene
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
- Tacitus
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The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
- Brene Brown
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
- Dan Millman
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.
- Andy Stanley
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There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.
- Andy Stanley
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
- Jeremy Bentham
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Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.
- Andy Stanley
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I am somebody who has always struggled with uncertainty. And, of course, uncertainty is so core to life. I seek out knowledge to help me deal with that. But I'm also aware that knowledge can be really a double-edged sword.
- Chloe Benjamin
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
- Jacob Bronowski
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
- Edward Coke
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The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
- Peter L. Berger
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The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
- George Soros
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