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• I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.

  George Clooney

  Weekend, Winning, Awards

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Theres a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that its kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Mean, Thinking, Expression

  "Mark Pellegrino of 'Being Human' gets 'Lost' in gods, monsters". Interview with Aaron Sagers, geekout.blogs.cnn.com. February 23, 2012.

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• Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.

  Teju Cole

  Sight, Sky, Indulge In

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Order, Two, People

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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  Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

  John Brown

  Thinking, Doe, Holiness

  John Brown (1866). “Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter”, p.117

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• Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

  J. I. Packer

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.31, InterVarsity Press

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• Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Greatness, Imagination

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.161, Oxford University Press, USA

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• [W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value -- in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price -- should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor -- in our view -- financially fattening).

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Views, Investing

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• From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation.

  Thomas Huxley

  Hard Work, Hands, Dawn

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1967). “The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings”

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• Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

  David Willetts

  Men, Roger, Great Men

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• I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

  Ted Baillieu

  Thinking, Climate, Degrees

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• I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

  Joseph Addison

  May, Way, Morality

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.32

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• Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Successful, Blow

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.105, Xist Publishing

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• Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Modern, Vulgar

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.125, University of Toronto Press

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• The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

  David Hume

  Vices, Morality, Virtue

  David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing

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• We define thermodynamics ... as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation as to the molecular constitution.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Law, Body, Firsts

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• I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for tartaric acid, in which hydrogen figures as bigamist … I may say, he but follows the loose example set by certain Uesanians, especially one G. N. Lewis, a Californian thermodynamiter, who has chosen to disregard the fundamental canons of chemistry—for no obvious reason other than that of indulging in premature speculation upon electrons as the cause of valency

  Henry Edward Armstrong

  Paris, Example, Fundamentals

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• If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay, then you're in deep trouble. Once you make a certain kind of peace with the past, then you should be completely oriented towards speculation about the future.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Loss, Past, People

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• The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, College, Division Of Labor

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.39, Graphic Arts Books

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• The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Action, Theory

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Children, Religion, Fancy

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• Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result isFantasy; if, however, the sensitive, intuitive mind turns to speculation, the result is Imagination. Fantasy may be visionary, but it is cold and logical. Imagination is sensuous and instinctive. Both have form, but the form of Fantasy is analogous to Exposition, that of Imagination to Narrative.

  Herbert Read

  Thinking, Imagination, Mind

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• Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

  Ida Tarbell

  Men, Buying In, Oil

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• The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mean, Men, Practice

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Causes, Common

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.20, Harper Collins

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