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• You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Thinking, Lost

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.138, Image

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• Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

  William James

  Respect, Struggle, Adversity

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.674, Courier Corporation

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• It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

  Michael Behe

  Said, Smack

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• I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Integrity, Weather, Climate

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• The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Pride, Ego, Flesh

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.

  Clara Zetkin

  Women, Party, Issues

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• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fun, Justify

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• Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

  Lyman Abbott

  Reason

  Lyman Abbott (1872). “Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish”, p.9

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• We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

  Alfred Adler

  Children, Criminals, Ifs

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• The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

  Jerome Bruner

  Education, School, Laziness

  The Process of Education (p. 14)

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• It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Medicine, Suffering, Patents

  Three Men in a Boat (1889) ch. 1

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• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Beautiful, Passion, Literature

  1922 Fantasia of the Unconscious, ch.15.

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• Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

  John Henry Newman

  Fall, Men, Dogma

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• I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Our Generation, Generations, Sin

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• I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wise, Women, Glowing

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• Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Revenge, Interesting, Redemption

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• I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

  James Thurber

  Sneezing, Allergies, Wake Up

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• The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Military, Army

  "Introduction to 'It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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• He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

  Margery Allingham

  Two, Intuition, Quiet

  Margery Allingham (2016). “Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late Pig”, p.120, Ipso Books

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• What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Drawing, Sometimes, Deny

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 123, 1799.

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• Murder will out, this my conclusion.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Literature, Murder

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• I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

  William Howard Taft

  Presidential, Towns, Tourists

  Letter of Archibald Butt to Clara F. Butt on June 01, 1909. "Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt" by Archibald Willingham Butt, 1930.

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• As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Common, Study, Authority

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• The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.

  Jim Cramer

  Thinking, Long, People

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