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Doubt Quotes
"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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"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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"You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skinYour head's under water when you learned to swimOn a road to hell, congratulations, you're free."
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"But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese."
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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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"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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"Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection."
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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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"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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"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."
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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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"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured."
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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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"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 am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying."
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"The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt."
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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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"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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"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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"Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one."
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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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"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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"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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"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 begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."
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"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."
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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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"Doubt never brings anything better, Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!"
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