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81 " There it was, happiness in a backward glance: happiness and the certainty of hope. "
82 " Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. "
83 " Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. "
― Michael Ignatieff , On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
84 " Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed. "
85 " If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. "
― Lord Byron
86 " Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. "
