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• I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Inspirational Sports, Circumstances

  "In his own words: Ronaldo reveals all about Ferguson, his football dreams and his future". Interview with Bruno Prata, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.

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• The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

  Sienna Miller

  Romantic, People, Strange

  "Sienna Miller: 'I've bought my freedom'". Interview with Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2011.

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• What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

  John Gresham Machen

  Moving, Army, Empires

  John Gresham Machen (1951). “What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses”

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• To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Spring, Character, Political

  1787-8 The Federalist Papers.

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• I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  People, Gossip, Annoying

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

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• It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

  Norm Coleman

  Clouds, Judging, Decision

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• Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Oil, Middle East

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• For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Honesty, Business, Financial

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• The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Hands, Would Be, Privilege

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• Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Krishna

  "Questions And Answers With His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami" by Ramananda Raya Das, www.bhakticharuswami.com. February 6, 2011.

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• I'm not much into speculation.

  Bernie Sanders

  Interview with Jake Tapper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. April 10, 2016.

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• I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, Sound, Rags

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• The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

  James Cook

  Tattoo, Curious, Subjects

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• Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  Real, Mean, Eye

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• ...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.

  Gilbert Burnet

  Science, Overcoming, Amusement

  Gilbert Burnet (1745). “An Exposition of the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England”, p.176

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• As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning of the Universe, in which our globe, like a speck of abandoned matter, escapes our vision and is no longer an object worthy of our regard. In order to fix our vision, it is necessary to take it such as it is, to observe well all parts of it, and by indications infer from the present to the past.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Science, Past, Order

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• I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

  Charles Darwin

  Education, Science, Observation

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.342, VM eBooks

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• I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and after reading them I feel as Senator Brandegee felt after a celebrated dinner in Washington. "I feel," he said, "as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had tea with the Mad Hatter."

  Charles Lane Poor

  Reading, Science, Mad

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• Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which they inhabit. It would be much more desirable that facts should be placed in the foreground and theories in the distance, than that theories should be brought forward at the expense of facts. So that, in after times, when the speculations of the present day shall have passed away, from a greater accumulation of information, the facts may be readily seized and converted to account.

  Henry De la Beche

  Distance, Science, Information

  "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" edited by Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Springer Science & Business Media, (p. 863), January 5, 2012.

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• In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on speculation, not evidence. Proponents are pressing their views with more PR than scientific data. Indeed, we have allowed the whole issue to be politicized-red vs blue, Republican vs Democrat. This is in my view absurd. Data aren't political. Data are data. Politics leads you in the direction of a belief. Data, if you follow them, lead you to truth.

  Michael Crichton

  Issues, Blue, Views

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• Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Ipads, Hype, Pda

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• Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution that most needs our support these days is not society, nor the human community, but the global corporation.

  Eric Kierans

  Years, Support, Community

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• There's been a lot of speculation about every single girl I'm with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it's a complete pain for the girls.

  Prince William

  Girl, Pain, Doe

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• You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Want, Way

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

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• While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control.

  Pope Francis

  Exercise, Minorities, Growing

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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