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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt."

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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
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"Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything."

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"For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes."

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"Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun."

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