"There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty."
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"No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things."
"There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example."
"No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves."
"There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'."
"When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits."
"There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like."
"In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation."
"I would think you an utter fool if you did not doubt me, warrior. Instead, I am forced to respect your uncommon intelligence. Now what, do you suppose, should I do from there?"
"Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships."
"When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes."
"It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time."
"Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions."
"The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it."
"The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them."
"... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books."
"The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea."
"There are dangers surrounding innocuousness and consensus and habit. ISO organizes hundreds of people on technical committees who are, no doubt, trying to do their best. But the standards in some cases end up reinforcing violence and destruction thousands of miles away."
"That's the real beauty of chanting - you directly connect with God. I have no doubt that by saying Krishna over and over again, He can come and dance on the tongue. The main thing, though, is to keep in touch with God."
"I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation"