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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
Thomas Reid
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Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.
James Hollis
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From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
Simone de Beauvoir
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To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.
Nisio Isin
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The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.
Jonah Hill
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I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.
Brian Chesky
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The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Scott Turow
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The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
Milan Kundera
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As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.
Michael Fassbender
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I have never had a problem dealing in areas of ambiguity. I can make a decision and not have it all lined up just right.
Jerry Jones
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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
Frank Herbert
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Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
Skeet Ulrich
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Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.
John Bolton
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Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
Tony Gilroy
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In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.
David Trimble
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The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.
Ben Brantley
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Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.
Mason Cooley
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It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
John Updike
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Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.
Felix Frankfurter
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
Scott Turow
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...I am much better now at ambiguities.
Saul Bellow
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I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.
Jason Beghe
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Americans always think they have to lead. I'm interested in ambiguity.
Mary Harron
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We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.
Paul Ryan
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This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You have to establish some facts, but in movies, you see things happening, and the exact meaning behind the images is more ambiguous.
Albert Serra
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Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.
Robert Redford
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Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.
Robert Redford
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Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women
Lillian B. Rubin
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I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the only way to approach the universal.
James Arthur
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Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
Mohsin Hamid