“I make no vows. I take my chance. ... It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.”

—  George Bernard Shaw , Back to Methuselah

The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

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