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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain. – W. Somerset Maugham

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It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830, translated

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Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. – Albert Camus

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We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Pulvis et umbra,” 1888

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The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. – H.T. Leslie

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