Future

If I told a lie, then I got to come back and correct it years later. I hate that I have to be the person that touch on their life and be personal and be direct with certain situations, but man, I'm glad that it's me than them.

American Musician

Joyce Meyer

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

American Author

Clint Eastwood

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

American Actor

T. S. Eliot

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

American Poet

Josh Billings

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

American Comedian

John F. Kennedy

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

American President

Frederick Douglass

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Theodore Roosevelt

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

American Politician

Eminem

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

American Rapper

Used when you know the specifics but choose not to name them directly.

Indirect Reference

Starts a sentence generally and narrows down to something specific unmentioned.

General to Specific

Can imply you know more than you're saying, creating a sense of secrecy.

Implying Secrets

Shows strong confidence in what is being said or predicted.

Expressing Certainty

Strengthens the weight of your belief or opinion on a subject.

Affirming Beliefs

Refers to an unspecified subset of a group or category.

Selective Grouping

Implies the exclusion of others in the group not being talked about.

Exclusion by Selection

Used when predicting or being sure about a future outcome.

Future Predictions

Reflects determination or an inevitable outcome in someone's actions or plans.

Conveying Resolve

 Some of these are even visible, such as higher density of the grey matter that contains most of your brain's neurons and synapses, and more activity in certain regions when engaging a second language. The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life

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 blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances, most can be fooled with enough preparation,

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 billions, or certainly many millions of years earlier than happened on Earth. If just a few of them had spawned intelligent life and started creating technologies, those technologies would have had millions of years to grow in complexity and power.

Questions No One Knows...

 are actually hardwired to behave in a certain fashion. Research has implicated three regions of the brain variously involved in social behavior and complex cognitive planning, voluntary movement, and emotional and motivational responses.

Debunking the myths of...

 B, why haven't the chimpanzees flicked the off switch to humanity, or the Neanderthals? They certainly had reasons. We have an off switch, for example, right here. The reason is that we are an intelligent adversary;

What happens when our...

 to see the forest growing to see that we're actually doing some good is a very rewarding thing a very satisfying but Iceland is certainly among the worst examples in the world of deforestation

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 and potentially reduce the risk of certain types of cancer. No matter what, getting the right amount of liquid makes a world of difference in how you'll feel, think, and function day to day.

What would happen if you...

 was no margin for error somebody asked me once what are you looking for in a relationship and I replied certainty I needed certainty in an uncertain world but we live in an

How to deal with...

 the skeleton found at the nest site was almost certainly a nest raider preying on the hatchlings

Ferocious Dinosaur...

 protect them other adults certainly won't look after them

Certain

Indirect Reference

General to Specific

Implying Secrets

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