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"What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death."
"Man, I'm sick of doubt."
"Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own."
"I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly."
"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."
"I deny nothing, but doubt everything."
"When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap."
"Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd."
"There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better.""
"This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her."
"When in doubt, just take the next small step"
"No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer."
"Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt."
"I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman. I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt."
"I'm just saying we can all work on our manners. We can say please and thank you. We can be punctual. We can just be nicer to one another. It's something we have in our power to do. It reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
"Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes."
"Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical."
"There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh."
"Maybe we will get to this point and reach a decision one way or the other with 'Human cloning is acceptable,' but I doubt that it is ever going to happen for 'It is morally permissible to eat shrimp' or with the general formula 'Adultery is wrong,' whose intended extension is again very unclear."
"Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?"
