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"You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear."
"There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector."
"No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one."
"But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge."
"I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries."
"I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me."
"No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait."
"The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point."
"There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends."
"Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1."
"Once you put your attention, your thoughts, your energy, your consciousness on a new intention, that's what you begin manifesting into your life. The word "intention," I believe, is really important, because it doesn't leave any room for doubt or maneuvering: "I intend to create this in my life out of the circumstances that I'm now experiencing.""
"When doubt is banished, # abundance flourishes and anything is possible."
"Always keeping in mind that you become what you think about, be very careful about any thoughts you harbor that involve doubt."
"If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission."
"I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly."
"Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so."
"O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come."
"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it."
"O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!"
"Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won."
