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Doubt Quotes
"I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am."
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"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
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"The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified."
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"I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it."
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"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
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"I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does."
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"There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage."
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"It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards."
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"You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either."
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"I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind."
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"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route."
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"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."
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"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."
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"This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it."
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"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
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"There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one."
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"Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously."
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"As a Democrat in this Senate, I felt aggrieved by some things the other side has done. I have no doubt they feel aggrieved about some of the things we have done."
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"Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with."
25
"Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility."
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"The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same."
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"The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened."
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"Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve."
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"Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that."
23
"It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured."
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"Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred."
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"If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud."
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"I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
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"To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it."
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"There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment."
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"However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland."
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"If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead."
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"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."
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