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The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

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

The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

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

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!

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.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

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

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.

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.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

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.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

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.