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1. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

Abraham Lincoln

Perspective, Hope, Present, Uncertainty, Change

2. “The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.”

Abraham Lincoln

Uncertainty, Hope, Resilience, Faith, Future

3. “With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.”

Abraham Lincoln

Hope, Future, Uncertainty, Positivity, Perspective

4. “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”

Albert Einstein

Mathematics, Reality, Uncertainty, Logic, Philosophy

5. “To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...”

William Shakespeare

Death, Sleep, Dreams, Uncertainty, Fear

6. “There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Uncertainty, Growth, Adventure, Perspective

7. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Uncertainty, Life, Flavor, Experience, Adventure

8. “Change means the unknown.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Change, Uncertainty, Growth, Fear, Possibility

9. “Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”

J.K. Rowling

Talent, Intelligence, Fate, Uncertainty, Life

10. “I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.”

J.K. Rowling

Writing, Future, Publication, Reflection, Uncertainty

11. “Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you’ll find on the pillow.”

Winston Churchill

Politics, Irony, Uncertainty, Society, Humor

12. “Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.”

Winston Churchill

War, Reality, Uncertainty, Challenges, Strategy

13. “Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.”

Winston Churchill

Life, Hazard, Danger, Uncertainty, Sweetness

14. “True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”

Winston Churchill

Genius, Evaluation, Complexity, Uncertainty, Intelligence

15. “Life is what happens to you while you’re planning on doing something else.”

John Lennon

Life, Plans, Uncertainty, Reality, Surprise

16. “How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?”

John Lennon

Direction, Confusion, Life, Uncertainty, Self

17. “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

Oscar Wilde

Romance, Uncertainty, Essence, Love, Excitement

18. “An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.”

Oscar Wilde

Egg, Adventure, Uncertainty, Simplicity, Life

19. “Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.”

Oscar Wilde

Love, War, Difficulty, Relationships, Uncertainty

20. “Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.”

C.S. Lewis

Adventure, Choices, Uncertainty, Courage, Risk

21. “You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.”

C.S. Lewis

Belief, Knowledge, Faith, Certainty, Uncertainty

22. “Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.”

C.S. Lewis

Faith, Apologetics, Belief, Debate, Uncertainty

23. “One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.”

Mark Twain

Weather, New England, Uncertainty, Beauty, Irony

24. “Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.”

Mark Twain

Possibility, Optimism, Life, Mystery, Uncertainty

25. “The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.”

Mark Twain

Preparation, Life, Uncertainty, Irony, Adversity

26. “Prediction is difficult – particularly when it involves the future.”

Mark Twain

Prediction, Future, Wisdom, Irony, Uncertainty

27. “Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.”

Paulo Coelho

Fear, Change, Uncertainty, Reflection, Duality

28. “Cricket is a game full of forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune, and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.”

George Orwell

Cricket, Hope, Fortune, Ethics, Uncertainty

29. “The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.”

George Orwell

Death, Life, Uncertainty, Surprise, Fate

30. “To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.”

Maya Angelou

Youth, Freedom, Uncertainty, Independence, Growth

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