"It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing."
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"I doubt evolution is real."
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"Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not 'real'. No. But what was 'real'? At that moment I began to doubt my own reality."
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"Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it."
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"It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage to move ahead in spite of these doubts."
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"When in doubt, tell yourself the truth."
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"The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die."
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"When in doubt, go to the library."
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"I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made."
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"One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever"."
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"Power without guilt, love without doubt."
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"I don't doubt love for a second. I'm living for love. Listen to my songs!"
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"There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping."
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"If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide."
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"Humans are particularly interesting; our culture is incredible, there's no doubt about that. In many respects, no other species matches ours. But in quite a few respects, they do, and that can help us, perhaps, to better understand our own culture. We look at the ways humans are similar to other animals, and at the ways they differ, rather than just saying, "We have culture and you don't.""
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"My head was full of misty fumes of doubt."
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"In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct."
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"I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew."
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"Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many."
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"Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating."
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