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• The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, Lying, Practice

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (1912). “Armaments and Arbitration, Or, The Place of Force in the International Relations of States”, p.206, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Pleasant, Regions

  Robert Falcon Scott, Charles Turley (1915). “The voyages of Captain Scott: Retold from "The voyage of the Discovery" and "Scott's last expedition,"”

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• Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?

  Paul Lockhart

  Children, Math, Thinking

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• In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  Literature, Pursue

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• Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.

  Francis Collins

  Atheist, Atheism, Argument

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• I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.

  Roger Waters

  Depressing, Skeletons, Work Out

  "Amused to Death" syndicate Radio Premiere, 1992.

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• My courage comes from my faith. I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Intelligent, Grace, Aspire

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• My radio show is actually the conclusion to my week. Which means there'll be 20% of what's happened to me during those five days, on my show. If I don't do my radio show I actually feel lost! It's like the bookends - the beginning and the end of the week and the whole thing comes together. So for me it is important.

  Jazzie B

  Mean, Important, Together

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• That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.

  Norton Juster

  Simple, Way, Phantom Tollbooth

  Norton Juster (1961). “The phantom tollbooth”

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• Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't science. Science is the study of all things that affect human beings. They have to be together! A meteorologist has difficulty talking with a sociologist, because they don't understand each other. You can't teach sciences in 'bits'; you have to bring it all together. Science is a way of thinking - a way at arriving at conclusions without your own opinion in it.

  Jacque Fresco

  Thinking, Talking, Weather

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• I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The 'miraculous' was a penetration into this unknown reality.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Reality, Long, Labyrinth

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• Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions.

  Anton Chekhov

  Moving, Writing, Conceited

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• I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Simple, Different

  Benjamin Graham, New York Institute of Finance (1947). “Current problems in security analysis”

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• Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it – even though others may hesitate or differ.

  Benjamin Graham

  Sound, May, Facts

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.205, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Discovery, Nuts, Community

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• Companies who have been able to groom CEOs internally have done significantly better. We came to the conclusion that the quality of several of the reviewed internal candidates was so high that it did not merit to go outside.

  Jorma Ollila

  Quality, Done, Able

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• Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionise the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions. Right now we don't have that evidence.

  Richard Wiseman

  Needs, World, Claims

  "Could there be proof to the theory that we're ALL psychic?". Interview with Danny Penman, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 28, 2008.

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• As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required to pass from a nervous sensation to the conception of an external object, which the sensation has aroused. The sensations of our nerves of sense are mere symbols indicating certain external objects, and it is usually only after considerable practice that we acquire the power of drawing correct conclusions from our sensations respecting the corresponding objects.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Practice, Drawing, Perception

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• Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning.

  Erik Naggum

  Teaching, Mind, Novices

  Re: Guide to Lisp, v1.20 (Usenet article), groups.google.com. August 28, 2002.

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• Thus I grind to conclusion.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Grind

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• Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.

  George Polya

  Thinking, Expression, Achievement

  George Pólya (1945). “How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method”

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• Euclid 's manner of exposition, progressing relentlessly from the data to the unknown and from the hypothesis to the conclusion, is perfect for checking the argument in detail but far from being perfect for making understandable the main line of the argument.

  George Polya

  Data, Perfect, Progress

  George Pólya (1945). “How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method”

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• All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.

  Eric Hoffer

  Reality, Faithful, Doctrine

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

  Alan Arkin

  Trying, Acting, Together

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• Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

  Bryan Sykes

  Evidence, Ambiguous, Myth

  Bryan Sykes (2007). “Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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