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The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived. (Quote by - Gilda Radner)

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. (Quote by - Melvin Maddocks)

One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street. (Quote by - Phil Condit)

Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, Till we can clear these ambiguities. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

We are consistently working with high-potential clients who need to step up and be more globally literate as leaders, as well as to accelerate their own ability to develop others on the job. These requests usually involve helping leaders possess more innovative abilities, such as dealing with ambiguity, making faster decisions and working virtually. (Quote by - Rolf Gruen)

But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness. (Quote by - Leo Hindery)

I don't see how you can avoid the fact that the books are riddled with sadism, racism, sexism. In books, readers tend to skate over all these horrible ambiguities. The moment they're put on film, it's very difficult to duck them. (Quote by - Peter Hunt)

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live. (Quote by - Robert James Waller)

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. (Quote by - Kenzaburo Oe)

There is a great deal of ambiguity and uncertainty in what they did, and I would not predict how the courts will decide this. (Quote by - Scott Silliman)

I showed how dangerous that outlet was -- there was no ambiguity. And now it's all come true. (Quote by - Hassan Mashriqui)

This is real research - slow, serious, scientifically rigorous and painstaking work. It will go in strange directions, produce ambiguous results along the way, and raise a lot of new questions, but we're convinced that in 10 to 15 years, we will change history. (Quote by - Brendan Foley)

The idea is that your body, on this very deep, unconscious level, is controlling a virtual person. It's a much more complex, ambiguous type of interactivity, but it's very real interactivity. (Quote by - Lynn Hughes)

The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable. (Quote by - Hugh Johnson)

There's nothing ambiguous about the findings. (Quote by - Elaine Ostrander)

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. (Quote by - Richard Lugar)

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere. (Qutoe by - Joel Coen)

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing. (Quote by - Ralph Ellison)

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. (Quote by - Scott Turow)

Americans should not impose a solution, but this administration will finally have to make it clear what its vision for a two-state solution is. Just saying 'a two-state solution' is too ambiguous. The vision has to spell out the details on final status issues such as Palestinian refugees, borders and Jerusalem. (Quote by - Ami Ayalon)

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces - both individual and social. (Quote by - Paul Tillich)

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous. (Quote by - Keith Richards)

There is no ambiguity here. It's beyond question the courts may not issue an injunction prohibiting further reporting in this case. (Quote by - Peter Scheer)

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