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• You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wall, Self, Shadow

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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• The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

  Callie Khouri

  Confidence, Overcoming, World

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• The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Jesus, Real

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

  Joan Bennett Kennedy

  Philosophy, Succeed, Helping

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• As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Self, Trials, Permanent

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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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• The only thing that keeps us going back to one another is that we're all filled with such enormous self-doubt. We have doubts about our ability to be alone, to self-actualize.

  Stephen Colbert

  Self, Enormous, Ability

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• There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the calf of someone's leg, all the time, and he draws blood without a doubt.

  Susan Mitchell

  Blood, Teeth, Legs

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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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• My dad is an ambassador. My brother is a diplomat. I doubt that I could be doing anything else other than being a diplomat if I weren't in showbiz. It's in the genes!

  Woody Milintachinda

  Brother, Dad, Ambassadors

  Source: travel.cnn.com

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• Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

  Louise Colet

  Men, Devotion, He Man

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 519), 1886.

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• To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!

  Edith M. Thomas

  Yield

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• I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if youre going to get the return. Theres no doubt about that. Its a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.

  Jon Tester

  Priorities, Return, Facts

  "Sen.-Elect Jon Tester, 'Regular Montanan'". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. November 13, 2006.

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• in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  California, Secret, Trying

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

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• We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.

  Cargill Gilston Knott

  Past, Vision, Training

  "Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: supplementing the two volumes of Scientific papers published in 1898 and 1900". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 1, 1911.

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