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• You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Believe, Finals, States

  Stanislaw Lem (2012). “The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The issue of comparative performances can be regarded as settled to-day, both scientifically and practically. Though differences in attitudes between men and women still form a favorite topic of drawing-room conversation ... women's abilities are no longer seriously in doubt. These discussions rather seem to be a kind of rearguard action carried on after the main battle has been decided.

  Alva Myrdal

  Attitude, Men, Issues

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.

  Thomas Malthus

  Successful, Government, Evil

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1989). “An Essay on the Principle of Population”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• ... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.

  Mary Church Terrell

  People, Matter, Bears

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

  Ethel Smyth

  Artist, Blow, Secret

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• When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

  Candice Millard

  Book, Adventure, Rivers

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• Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Paul Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is the one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength, and he is a genuine competitor.

  Thierry Henry

  Team, Player, Way

  "Paul Scholes earns plaudits from football's elite". www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.

  Abraham Coles

  Death, Father, Kind

  Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”

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• I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Challenges, Climate

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• Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Anger, Passion, Pride

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• I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economic status of the family - of its members in relation to each other and of the whole unit in relation to the other units of which the community is made up.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Family, Community, World

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• if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

  J. G. Holland

  Mind, Flax, Authorship

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• What is the little one thinking about?
  Very wonderful things, no doubt;
  Unwritten history!
  Unfathomed mystery!
  Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
  And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
  As if his head were as full of kinks
  And curious riddles as any sphinx!

  J. G. Holland

  Thinking, Laughing, Crow

  J. G. HOLLAND (1863). “BITTER-SWEET A POEM”, p.26

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• Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will be, without a shadow of a doubt, the single greatest film of all time about Charles Manson being the savior to all humanity in the year 3069.

  John Roecker

  Years, Humanity, Shadow

  Interview with Kristopher Terrell, www.filmjerk.com. August 23, 2003.

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• The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.

  Yousef Saanei

  Religious, Islamic, Leader

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• Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both sides in Geneva.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  United States, Would Be, Sides

  "Peace is Possible: The Politics of the Sermon on the Mount" by Franz Alt, (p. 94), 1985.

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• Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Expression, Personality, Soul

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• A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Truth Is

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• Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Stupid, People, Silence

  Mary Jo Putney (2002). “The Spiral Path”, Berkley

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Men, Honor

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

  Judith Kelman

  Writing, Self Confidence, Perfect

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• In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the great Silence, where you could not get at them, or they at you, then doubts, aching doubts took possession of one.

  Henry Handel Richardson

  Death, Believe, Blow

  Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1971). “Ultima Thule”

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• There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.

  Frances Noyes Hart

  Mind, Granted, Application

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• Parenthood is nothing but doubts.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Parenthood

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• Death is your truest friend, and your most reliable adviser. If you have doubts about the course of your life, you have only to consult your death for the proper direction. Death will never lie to you.

  Florinda Donner

  Death, Lying, Never Lie

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