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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"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."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"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."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"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'."

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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
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"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."

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"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?"

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Francis Ford Coppola Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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"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."

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"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."

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Margaret Thatcher Politician
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"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."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
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"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."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"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."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"... 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."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea."

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Keller Easterling Architect
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"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."

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"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."

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