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Doubt Quotes
"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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"This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it."
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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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"If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud."
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"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."
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"There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible."
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"The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost."
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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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"If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?"
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"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."
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"There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future."
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"While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist."
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"I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century."
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"Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families."
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"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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"A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy."
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"Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free."
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"If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt."
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"There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker."
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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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"I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake."
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"A good friend is someone who is there for me when i'm glad or sad...who I can laugh madly with or cry badly with."
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"The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt."
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"Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one."
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"It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means."
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"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."
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"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."
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"The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy."
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"Love was selfish, wasn't it? It made honest men want things they had no right to. It cocooned one from the rest of the world, erased time itself, knocked away reason. It made you live in defiance of the inevitable. It made you want another's mind, body; it made you feel as if you deserved to own their heart, and carve out a place in it."
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"Doubt is the first ray of illumination."
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"My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us."
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"As amazing as you look in that tux, I haven't been able to stop thinking about seeing you out of it."
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