"I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M."
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"There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so."
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"There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life."
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"Now it would be foolish and impossible to try and prevent the manufacture of films containing Canadian snow scenes; but there is no vestige of a doubt that when exhibited overseas they have a detrimental effect of immigration . . . Everything that can be done should be done, to encourage the circulation of screen pictures that demonstrate that snow scenes and dog-trains are but a minor phase in Canadian life."
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"Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few."
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"To prolong doubt was to prolong hope."
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"Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it."
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"It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin begins is a matter as to which casuists differ. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. But I doubt whether modern authorities would agree with him on this point."
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"When Scripture talks about the heart, it's not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It's talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt)."
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"The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material."
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"We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason."
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"Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might."
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"This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope..."
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"God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of."
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"By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on."
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"John Kricfalusi is very talented; he used to really piss me off. But I did good work, you know? The Ren & Stimpy show without me was totally unsuccessful. So if there's anybody listening out there with any doubts about what I can do for a show: Try me. The thing is, I wasn't about to stop doing a job."
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"It’s the people who don’t worry—those who never have any doubts that what they’re doing is good and right—they’re the ones that cause the problems."
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"I don't think I'm ever afraid, but I doubt myself often. Because of that doubt, I constantly strive to make myself better."
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"When in doubt, I go to the phones a lot because it adds a new dimension and a new energy. It kind of takes me out of the equation if I feel like I irritated them or they aren't into the experience."
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"There's no doubt Milos Raonic will be a very tough final opponent, after all he beat [ Roger] Federer on Centre Court to get there."
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