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• It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you had it to do over." It's not out there.

  Nora Ephron

  Thinking, Games, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don't know.

  John F. Kerry

  Energy, Knows

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Donald Trump is never going to be the nominee. So, I'm not worried about a hypothetical that's never going to happen.

  Marco Rubio

  Worried, Trump, Happens

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• What if there were no hypothetical situations?

  Christopher Jones

  What If, Situation, Ifs

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• Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

  John Yarmuth

  Real, Problem, Real Problems

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• It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.

  Jim Peebles

  Matter, Embarrassment, Form

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• Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

  Jasper Fforde

  World, Imagine, Situation

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.225, Penguin

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• They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

  Isabel Allende

  Order, World, Advantage

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• The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Opposites, Purpose, Done

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• It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.

  Richelle Mead

  Reality, Want, And Love

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.779, Zebra Books

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• When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.

  J. J. Abrams

  Real, Spectacular, Theoretical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Unique, Bed, Needs

  Milton H. Erickson, Jeffrey K. Zeig, Brent B. Geary (2000). “The Letters of Milton H. Erickson”, p.17, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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• With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack solely for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic wasn't even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.

  Ann Coulter

  Long, People, Leader

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• In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of the hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul. I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is rot.

  Carson McCullers

  Fighting, Hands, People

  "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".

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• Never answer a hypothetical question.

  Moshe Arens

  Answers

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• Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

  Lev Grossman

  Intelligent, Tree, Would Be

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.225, Penguin

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• It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to show that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning is heating the atmosphere. It is all a fiction.

  Tom Segalstad

  Atmosphere, Fiction, Burning

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• Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.

  Charles Thom

  Life, Science, Ideas

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• It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe....It is foolish to do so when the problem is largely hypothetical and not substantiated by observations....we do not currently have any convincing evidence or observations of significant climate change from other than natural causes.

  Frederick Seitz

  Cutting, Convincing Evidence, Environmental

  "2008 Climate Debate" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. March 31, 2008.

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• You and I both know, deep in your heart, you agree with me. And I will prove it with one hypothetical scenario: you are alone in a closet of your home. There`s a bright red button. You can push that button and presto all Negroes and Jews and all other colored people are instantly removed from the North American continent and returned to their native countries. You`d push it, wouldn`t you whitey? See? See? See? in the final analysis, you agree with me. But of course, you wouldn`t do antything to bring that scenario about, or any other scenario favorable to your Race.

  Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.

  Country, Home, Heart

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• In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Moving, Ideas, Development

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• If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Science, Body, Principles

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• The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

  George Jean Nathan

  Fashion, Clothes, Loyal And Faithful

  1921 The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls,'Woman'.

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• Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

  Walter Martin

  Atheism, Matter, Responsible

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• Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Physicians, Use

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