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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 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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• 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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• 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 suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place

  Paul Watzlawick

  Suicide, Doe, Right Place

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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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• I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, Wish, Politics

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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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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• I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

  Rose Kennedy

  Important, Elements, Life Is

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Perspective, Pessimist, Optimist

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Facts, Needs

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• Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.

  William James

  Science, Thinking, Hands

  1907 Pragmatism.

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• I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.

  David Axelrod

  Believe, Moving, Reality

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• No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

  Saint Patrick

  Ignorance, Perfect, Pleasure

  Saint Patrick, Saint Secundinus (Bp. in Ireland) (1953). “The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick”

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• I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Lying, Science

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Ch. 14, 1897.

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• If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

  Samuel Butler

  Logic, Reason, Enough

  Samuel Butler (1970). “A critical and annotated edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon”

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• Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

  Oliver Lodge

  Survival, Matter, Way

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “My Philosophy: Representing My Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.295, Cambridge University Press

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• When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Hate, Distrust, Lack Of Faith

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• I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

  Damon Runyon

  Life, Gambling, Long Ago

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• As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

  Johann Most

  Ideas, Agnostic, Assuming

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• I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Errors, Long Ago, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.184, Vintage

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• Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Journey, Innovation, Intuition

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

  John Lone

  People, Trying, Looks

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• The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mother, Baby, Children

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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