Speculation Quotes - Page 9

• There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Wall, Today, Hills

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• Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Jobs, Trying, Speculators

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• If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it.

  Henry Rollins

  Crazy, Sleep, Degrees

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me 'Oh wonderful, great you did!' we have to live with critics, this is normal. Chariots of the Gods was full of speculation, I had 238 question marks. Nobody read the question mark. They always said: Mr. Von Daniken is saying... I did not say, I asked the questions, would that be a posibility? In Chariots of the Gods, I made clear difference between a speculations and facts.

  Erich von Däniken

  Kissing, Differences, Community

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• Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wall, Broken, Greed

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• Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

  John Milton

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.12, l.588-9.

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• The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Effort, Way

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.

  William Penn

  Practice, Ignorant, Pace

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

  Max Brooks

  Vacuums, Secrecy, Paranoid

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.45, Broadway Books

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• Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

  A. A. Gill

  Happy Life, Important Choices, History

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• I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, Character, Gossip

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Government, People

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest Christianity alone can respond. If the scientific people could rid us of death, they might indeed hope to win over the heart and conscience of the world, permanently, to some form of non-theistic speculation. As it is, the tide ebbs, as I believe, only that it may flow again.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Believe, Heart, Winning

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• We don't talk about sources and methods. Don't talk about ongoing intelligence operations. I know there's speculation. But it's important for the American people to understand that I will use my powers to protect us, and I will do so under the law, and that's important for our citizens to understand.

  George W. Bush

  Law, People, Important

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• Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

  David Harvey

  Land, Quagmire, May

  "The Limits to Capital". Book by David Harvey, 2006 VERSO Edition,

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• Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Giving, Trying, Investing

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• Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Art, Risk, Elements

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• His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.

  Harriet Martineau

  Organization, Latter, Origin Of Species

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• Speculation has been singularly fruitful as to what these markings on our next to nearest neighbor in space may mean. Each astronomer holds a different pet theory on the subject, and pooh-poohs those of all the others. Nevertheless, the most self-evident explanation from the markings themselves is probably the true one; namely, that in them we are looking upon the result of the work of some sort of intelligent beings. . . . The amazing blue network on Mars hints that one planet besides our own is actually inhabited now.

  Percival Lowell

  Mean, Intelligent, Blue

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• I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation.

  David Hume

  Race, Civilization, Action

  David Hume (2007). “Essays: Moral, Political and Literary”, p.213, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

  Kiera Cass

  Way, Certain, Persons

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• Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

  Joseph Addison

  Strength, Faith, Practice

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• The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with vigour and ethical meaning.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Ideas

  "Lectures on the Method of Academic Study" by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, translated by E. S. Morgan, edited by Norbert Guterman, 1966.

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• It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.

  Mario Bunge

  Moving, Light, World

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Self, Design, Pay

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