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Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous. - Eric Hoffer Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae Tempora di superi?] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (IV, 7, 17) All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo: Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Epistoloe Ex Ponto (IV, 3, 35) As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; the one we don't know we don't know. - Donald Rumsfeld My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise and nothing is But what is not. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at I, iii) This I ever held worse that all certitude, To know not what the worst ahead might be. - Algernon Charles Swinburne, Marino Faliero (act V) When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat., Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Andria (I, 5, 32)
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