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• While many have doubted the accuracy of the Bible, time and continued research have consistently demonstrated that the Word of God is better informed than its critics. In fact, while thousands of finds from the ancient world support in broad outline and often in detail the biblical picture, not one incontrovertible find has ever contradicted the Bible.

  Norman Geisler

  Biblical, Support, Details

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• Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Doubt

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1888). “Royal Bounty ...”

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• That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

  Cotton Mather

  Devil, Influence

  The Wonders of the Invisible World (1692)

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• How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.

  Horace Walpole

  Laughing, Way, Fool

  Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1858). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.562

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• Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski", and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.

  Neil Postman

  Time, Book, Simple

  "Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education".

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• When in doubt, win the trick.

  Edmond Hoyle

  Winning, Doubt, Tricks

  Hoyle's Games Improved, ed. Charles Jones (1790).

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• People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.

  Terrell Owens

  People, Way, Whole Life

  "The Many Moods of Owens - Why talented receiver does things his own way" by Nancy Gay, San Francisco Chronicle, p. C1, October 26, 2000.

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• In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Children, Men

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.195

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• In the beginning, you tamp down the animosity for the kids' sake. I'm not going to deny that I went through the wringer. But I don't think I doubted we'd end up here. That was always my dream, that the kids can have two loving parents that show respect for each other. And I feel that's what they have.

  Elin Nordegren

  Dream, Kids, Divorce

  "Elin Nordegren Breaks Her 4-Year Silence on Tiger Woods" by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. May 21, 2014.

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• Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion....There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong.

  David Mermin

  Discovery, Matter, Should

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• Indiana Jones. I always knew some day you'd come walking back through my door. I never doubted that. Something made it inevitable.

  Marion Raven

  Doors, Ark, Indiana

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• The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Lying, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

  Andre Gide

  Truth, Believe, Profound

  "Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits". Book by André Gide, p. 174, 1952.

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• I have often been doubted in music industry not because of my talent, but because I might not have been introduced to the game by major industry hype men, but I love being the underdog. I truly believe that god has put me here to say something and send a message to not only women but to all individuals like myself. I will not allow the politricks of the game to discourage me and keep me from the goal at hand. I will sing from my heart and leave the industry bullsh*t alone.

  K.Michelle

  Believe, Heart, Love Is

  Source: djbooth.net

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• The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Doubt, Belief, Believer

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• From the hindsight of history George Washington seems larger than life, more statuesque than man. Too bad! Washington's greatness as a leader was courage under fire and persistence in the face of obstacles. Yet even he at times doubted himself. But he put those doubts aside and forged ahead, convinced of his noble purpose.

  John Baldoni

  Persistence, Greatness, Men

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• I think women have brought a lot of life back to the sport-first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it well. Two, part of it is that old fascination some people have in watching athletes risk injury to win.

  Stacy Dragila

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• I've never doubted my ability.

  Priest Holmes

  Ability

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• It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Names, Soul

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• [I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted, but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass.

  Thomas Reid

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.

  Kurt Warner

  Believe, Europe, Long

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• I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!

  John Proctor

  Lying, House, Speak

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• There were many low points and times I doubted myself at work. I've heard no many more times than I've heard yes and there have been long periods in between jobs where money became very tight and I wondered how I was going to pay my bills. I've had to borrow money from friends and family to get by sometimes. That's the part of the 'overnight' success that people don't see. The struggle is real.

  Melanie Nicholls-King

  Real, Struggle, Long

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.

  Kevin Spacey

  Doubt, Trouble, Cases

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• You see, this people [Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, etc.] simply believed that God existed in the situation they were faced with, and they trusted Him rather than themselves. The result? God said, "That pleases Me." They were men and women just like you and I, which is the most encouraging part of all. We don't find golden haloes, or perfect backgrounds, or sinless lives, we just find people. People who failed, who struggled, who doubted, who experienced hard times and low times in which their faith was eclipsed by doubt. But their lives were basically characterized by faith.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Hard Times, Men, Please Me

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