"As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world."
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"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained."
"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
"Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender."
"Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt."
"Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples."
"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."
"When in doubt, go for the dick joke."
"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."
"There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva)."
"By doubting we come at truth."
"It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad."
"When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen."
"When in doubt, pig out!"
"I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt."
"It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability."
"you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one."
"When in doubt, don't."
"I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong"
"What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize."