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  • 'Certainties' are when we falsely believe that others will support our future like mamma, the boss or the governmentThere's some volcano muck in the air and planes can't fly in it.

    Politics.ie TommyO'Brien 2010

  • 'Certainties' are when we falsely believe that others will support our future like mamma, the boss or the government

    Politics.ie TommyO'Brien 2010

  • Certainties such as Barton and Bellamy being wrong 'uns were the lodestar by which many hacks – and plenty of others – navigated their way through the perilous waters of modern association football.

    Joey Barton and Craig Bellamy: farewell bad boys but not antiheroes | Marina Hyde 2012

  • I must read Simon Schama's literary historical work Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations 1991--in it, he writes about Wolfe's death and Benjamin West's painting, exploring the gap between a "lived event and its subsequent narration."

    Mad, Bad, & Sad: The French & Indian War Fresca 2010

  • I must read Simon Schama's literary historical work Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations 1991--in it, he writes about Wolfe's death and Benjamin West's painting, exploring the gap between a "lived event and its subsequent narration."

    Archive 2010-02-01 Fresca 2010

  • This seems to be the goal of others of Schama's books -- for example, Dead Certainties with its pointed skepticism about fact-based narratives.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • This seems to be the goal of others of Schama's books -- for example, Dead Certainties with its pointed skepticism about fact-based narratives.

    Schama's revolution Daniel Little 2009

  • Schama is a highly original thinker when it comes to conceptualizing history -- witness his motif of landscapes as a way of thematizing swatches of European history Landscape And Memory, or his crossing of history and fiction in Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • Certainties are what one needs to upend things, and at a some point conservatives grow uncomfortable with that sort of thing.

    Lapham's Quarterly: Perfecting the Paranoid Style in 500 BC and 2009 2009

  • Schama is a highly original thinker when it comes to conceptualizing history -- witness his motif of landscapes as a way of thematizing swatches of European history Landscape And Memory, or his crossing of history and fiction in Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations.

    Schama's revolution Daniel Little 2009

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