Uncertainty
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- There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
- The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
- I'm so happy about Biden. I love a boring president. It's such a relief. You just have so much more confidence in our government.
- We must fall on the side of de-escalation every time.
- You don't need brakes when you run out of gas.
- Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes next year and forever.
- By having the sun rise every day, the earth and the sky are renewing their commitment to work together. And we in turn honor that relationship and directly benefit from it.
- And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
- If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
- Confine yourself to the present.
- Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
- Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.