"I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly."
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"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."
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"Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them."
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"No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it."
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"Any belief worth having must survive doubt"
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"He that knows nothing doubts nothing."
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"The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name."
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"To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage."
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"The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts."
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"Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it."
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"If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them."
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"My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity."
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"This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell."
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"If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England."
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"The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine."
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"Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed."
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"Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns."
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"Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane."
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"A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction."
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"Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy"
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