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• For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

  Laurence Housman

  Brother, Benefits, Half

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• I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

  Maria Mitchell

  Travel, Men, Two

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• We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by "hard" data those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by "soft" data those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more or less doubtful.

  Bertrand Russell

  Taken, Mean, Science

  Bertrand Russell (1914). “Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy”

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• In doubtful matters boldness is everything.

  Publilius Syrus

  Inspirational, Matter, Boldness

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• As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

  Russell Brand

  Littles, Introspective, Persons

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• I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  School, Debate, Notion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.229, Stanford University Press

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• Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.

  Julien Benda

  Art, Philosophy, Lost

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.195, Transaction Publishers

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• When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.

  Francis Chan

  Motivational, Christian, Giving

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.87, David C Cook

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• The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Doubt, Sides

  Alexander Pope (1849). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the use of young people, by W.C. Macready”, p.77

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• Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Lady Macbeth, Important Macbeth

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.150, Classic Books Company

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• It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) -to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

  Enid Bagnold

  Love, Sex, Pain

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• Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

  George Crabbe

  Love, Running, Dark

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.145

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• The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, War, Struggle

  "The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914". Book by Winston Churchill, 1923.

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• America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.

  Thomas Paine

  Revenge, War, Heart

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including “The Life of Thomas Paine” – Extensive Biography of the Author”, p.8, e-artnow

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• I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Astrology, Providence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Feelings, Risk

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The psychogenesis of mental disease”

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• He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt.

  Billy Bray

  Sad, God, Faith

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• I would love to go on MasterChef. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

  Ed Balls

  Cooking, Goes On, Want

  "Ed Balls: Yorkshire beef and Westminster lasagne parties". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Men, Long

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

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• He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Forgiving, Mind

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.208, Pan Macmillan

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• There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Inspiration, Joy

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• A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

  Mark Twain

  Home, Cat, Tails

  Mark Twain (1980). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer, Detective”, p.316, Univ of California Press

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• For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.

  Margaret Mahy

  Buying Things, Shopping, Mind

  Margaret Mahy (2002). “The Catalogue of the Universe”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

  Mark Twain

  Appreciation, Writing, Compliment

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

  John Steinbeck

  Reality, Men, Discovery

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.46, Penguin

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