"Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God Bless the U.S.A."
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"Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste."
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"If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it."
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"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far."
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"Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are."
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"It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil."
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"Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt."
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"We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul."
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"That painter who has no doubts will achieve little."
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"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
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"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."
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"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."
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"There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect."
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"no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any"
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"As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out."
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"Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts."
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"There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so."
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"A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent."
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"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it."
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"My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all."
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