"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide."

Karl A. Menninger, American Psychologist

Doubt, Murder, Suicide

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"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide."

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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care?"

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Doubt is the first ray of illumination."

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"All people share doubts. The lingering question that eventually worms it way into all thinking people's brain is how to live splendidly and how to die without remorse and regret."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will."

Nick Hornby, English Writer

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"I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down."

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

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"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."

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