1. Taxes: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an automatic extension. 人生难测,但是有两样东西是肯定逃不掉的:一是死亡,另一个就是纳税。
2. It is very difficult to give up our certainties—our positions, our beliefs, our explanations. 放弃确定性——我们的职位、我们的信仰、我们的解释——非常困难。
3. If a man will begin with certainties, he should end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts; he should end in certainties. 如果一个人开始胸有成竹,结束时就会疑团丛生;可是如果甘愿开始疑团丛生,结束时就能胸有成竹。
网络释义
certainties 把握;
near certainties 高确定性事情;
Strategy -- The New Certainties 策略──新的根本现实;
Thus we have two certainties in which it is impossible that God be proved false 好叫我们这些寻求避难所的人,因这两种不可更改的事──在这些事上天主决不会撒谎──得到一种强有力的鼓励,去抓住那摆在目前的希望。;