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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
Fareed Zakaria
Great
Business
Great Deal
Made
Finished
Revolution
Sense
Difficult
Other
Libya
Has-Been
One Of The Things
Uncertainty
Terms
Well
Deal
Still
Been
Very
Oil
Harder
Actually
Things
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.
Georg Baselitz
Work
Time
Thought
Finished
Painting
Final
Statement
Though
Thought Process
Out
Uncertainty
Idea
Returns
Becomes
Always
Fixed
Goes
Process
Work Out
Your
Apparently
To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.
Grace Napolitano
Cause
Earnings
Definitely
System
Security
Would
Uncertainty
Allow
Part
Investment
Put
Investors
New
Private
Private Investment
Accounts
Social
Workers
Social Security
Social Security System
In science fiction, basic doubts featured prominently in the worlds of Philip K. Dick. I knew Phil for 25 years, and he was always getting onto me, a scientist. He was a great fan of quantum uncertainty, epistemology in science, the lot.
Gregory Benford
Great
Me
Science
Philip
Worlds
Uncertainty
Featured
Onto
He
Knew
Science Fiction
Quantum
Always
Scientist
Years
Lot
Getting
Fiction
Fan
Epistemology
Doubts
Basic
Phil
I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.
Herbert A. Simon
World
Took
Complexity
Tried
Some
Uncertainty
Develop
Account
Theories
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
J. Paul Getty
Business
Would
Would-Be
Triumph
Uncertainty
Without
Greatest
Dull
Off
Even
Element
Routine
Bringing
I love that America represents a beacon of hope and opportunity in a world of uncertainty.
Jack Schlossberg
Love
Hope
World
Opportunity
Beacon
Uncertainty
America
Represents
When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.
Jaggi Vasudev
You
Experience
Situation
Uncertainty
Vast
Step
New
Know
Terrain
How
Handle
Just
In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.
James Surowiecki
Together
Protection
Animals
Herd
Other
Uncertainty
Like
Conditions
Humans
Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning.
Janet Yellen
Business
Inflation
Relative
About
Uncertainty
Could
Prices
Sales
Just
Just As Much
Formation
Capital
Create
Much
Planning
Harm
We necessarily operate in an environment in which there's a great deal of uncertainty. In such an environment, it makes sense to use a risk-management approach to identify and avoid the big mistakes. That's one reason I favor a cautious approach.
Janet Yellen
Great
Great Deal
Mistakes
Big
Sense
Approach
Favor
Uncertainty
Environment
Identify
Operate
Deal
Makes
Cautious
Which
Use
Avoid
Reason
Necessarily
You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.
Jason Chaffetz
You
Uncertainty
Times
Taxes
Raise
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
Jerry Saltz
Life
Passion
Out
Thrill
Uncertainty
Mystery
Never
Picasso
Ended
Turns
It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.
Jim Boeheim
Best
You
Win
Job
College
Uncertainty
Coach
Certain
Amount
Assistant
Basketball
Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.
Jim Mattis
You
People
Thought
Some People
Be True
Sense
Able
Some
Case
Something
Risk
Uncertainty
Higher
True
Feel
Leads
Comfortable
Happen
Then
Much
Aversion
Your
Need
Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan.
John Boehner
Best
Think
All Americans
Jobs
Rates
Small
Uncertainty
Economy
Look
Reduce
Up
Begin
Begins
American
Current
Listen
Tax
Tax Rates
Plan
Create
Businesspeople
Extend
When faced with economic uncertainty, people don't want freedom. When they can't see their economic future, they want the nanny state.
John J. McLaughlin
Future
Freedom
People
State
See
Faced
Uncertainty
Economic
Economic Future
Nanny
Want
And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.
John Kasich
Face
Wind
Frankly
Out
Obamacare
Uncertainty
Over
Policy
Tax
Happens
Tax Policy
Creates
Regulatory
Washington
In these times of uncertainty for paper-based currency, I feel more secure in holding gold.
John Paulson
Holding
Secure
More
Uncertainty
Feel
Times
Currency
Gold
Mortgage insurance stocks remained depressed through the end of 2012 amid lingering uncertainty as to whether they had sufficient capital to absorb losses on delinquent loans originated before the crisis. However, as house prices began to recover, losses started to decline.
John Paulson
Before
Crisis
Uncertainty
Recover
Remained
Through
Delinquent
Prices
Had
Absorb
Mortgage
House
Insurance
However
Losses
Lingering
Began
End
Stocks
Whether
Depressed
Decline
Capital
Originated
Sufficient
Started
Loans
Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
Jordan Peterson
Truth
Best
You
Example
Defense
Tool
Extreme
Say
Circumstance
Weapon
Uncertainty
Simpler
Part
For Example
Because
Your
Reason
Injunction
Keeps
Things
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
Jorge Luis Borges
Unknown
State
Uncertainty
Known
Greeks
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.
Jose Angel Gurria
Class
Fears
Uncertainty
Exclusion
Reached
Middle
Middle Class
Social
Decline
Many
Societies
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
Jose Saramago
Positive
Heroes
Exhausted
Doubt
Way
More
Uncertainty
Never
Raw
Raw Material
Almost
Until
Cliches
Because
Always
Material
Provides
Perplexity
Model
Just
Just Because
Literary
Literature
Prefer
Really
Productive
Copies
Humans
Appreciated
There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.
Joseph Stiglitz
Awareness
Mindset
Proof
About
Something
Uncertainty
Scientist
Modeling
Different
Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
Julian Baggini
People
World
Pretty
About
Uncertainty
Sure
Accepting
Does
Lot
Ambiguity
Stop
Being
Should
Being Pretty
Full
Things
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