Questionable Quotes

• The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

  Paul Broca

  Inspire, Physicians, Assuming

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• It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

  John Stuart Mill

  Technology, Toil, Invention

  John Stuart Mill, Jonathan Riley (1998). “Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism”, p.129, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

  Jonah Hill

  Trying, Ambiguity, Great Things

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• The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

  Roger Wicker

  Money, Cells, Blood

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• While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

  Mike Pence

  Cloning, Amendments, Breakthrough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.

  Jessica Savitch

  Nbc, Careers, Magazines

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Contemplation

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• ...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

  Steve Martin

  Hurt, Heart, Events

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking, Obstacles, Spending Time

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.

  Steven Soderbergh

  World, Motive

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Order, Independence

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• One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Names, Ballet

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.443, Princeton University Press

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• Too many people are setting up ways to raise money that are questionable.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, People, Way

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• The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true, inner selves and the outside world is pervasive, but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  "I think, therefore iPod" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2008.

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• The 14th Amendment is very questionable as to whether or not somebody can come over, have a baby and immediately that baby is a citizen.

  Donald Trump

  Baby, Citizens, Amendments

  "Donald Trump: 'I have to do right thing' on immigration". Interview with Chris Cuomo, edition.cnn.com. August 19, 2015.

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• I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

  Storm Thorgerson

  Photography, Art, Real

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• We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Doubt, Facts, Interpretation

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Character, Dishonesty

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Important

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

  Ted Danson

  Enjoy Life, Planets, Known

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• In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams.

  Scott Sigler

  Dream, Reality, Waking

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• Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

  Lord Kelvin

  Horse, Race, Ironic

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• It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you read a book because you like the character, you are cheering for the character; you want the best for the character.

  Alissa Nutting

  Cheer, Book, Writing

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Judging, Office

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1270b.39,

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• Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Natural Talent, Ability, Phenomenon

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.18, Random House

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