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“I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if youre going to get the return. Theres no doubt about that. Its a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.”

Ifs Facts Cases Doubt Return Investment Priorities No Doubt Proven

Author:Jon Tester

“If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.”

Ifs Knows Choices Perfect Doubt Risk

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few more modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why-- which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive.”

Ifs Knows Feels Long Happens Purpose Understanding Dark Doubt Alive Eternity Creator No Doubt Nevertheless Modest Ache Fear Of Death

Book:Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Source: Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.”

Ifs Men Long States Humanity Three Animal Doubt Growing Worst Civilization Kissing Western Invention No Doubt Folly Distinction Decline Long Ago Patriarchy Fermentation

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at all, try This Is Not a Novel. There may be some doubt about exactly what kind of book it is, but not that it's altogether wonderful.”

Ifs Knows Men Trying Mind Kind May Book Novel Doubt Wonderful Treasure One Man

Author:Michael Dirda

“One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.”

People Ifs Knows Mean I Can Voice Doubt Percent Hundred

Author:Sam Smith

“You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.”

People Ifs Knows Would Be Watches Doubt Trouble Dying Clock Batteries

Author:Ben Katchor

“If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have recognized the Christian Church as the one that claimed descent from that which he had established, so far had it gone astray.”

Ifs Earth Christian Church Gone Doubt Century Savior Fifth Descent Christian Church

Author:Milton R. Hunter

“If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.”

Ifs Reason Whole Together Justice Doubt Effects Aim Dislike Rhyme Vulgar Immoral Vengeance Pagan Crude

Book:Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910

Source: Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910

“We never know when we too will be called into eternity. I doubt if even one of those people who got on those planes or walked into the World Trade Center or the Pentagon last Tuesday morning thought it would be the last day of their lives. They didn't - it didn't occur to them. And that's why each of us needs to face our own spiritual need and commit ourselves to God and his will now.”

People Ifs Knows World Needs Would Be Lasts Faces Spiritual Morning Doubt Eternity Trade Scary Commit Planes Last Day Tuesday Pentagon World Trade World Trade Center Tuesday Morning

Author:Billy Graham

“Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.”

Ifs Made Running Past Life Is Doubt Judgment Flow Entrepreneur Series Data Insufficient

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance. If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him. Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.”

Ifs Should Matter Body Common Taken Doubt Glasses Surface Resistance Former Substance Ease Shock Convince Latter Metals Electricity Particles Jars Electrical

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.”

Ifs Giving Country Form Political My Own Doubt Draws Vote Proof Sentiments Creeds Declaration Virginia

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

“There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.”

Ifs Men Doubt Solve

Book:The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade

“If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In otherwords, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we're being gypped.”

Ifs Feels May Matter Order Doubt Position Birth Prove No Matter What Envy

Author:Judith Viorst

“We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.”

Ifs Want May Persons Two Grows Growing Up Doubt Stage Willing Developing Permanent No Doubt Chairs Passages Compatibility Willing To Change

Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?”

Ifs Knows World Doe Matter Happens Hate House Hell Doubt Fronts Do You Know Rip Foul Does It Matter Swine

Author:Thornton Wilder

“I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly”

Ifs Thinking Persons Fall Doubt Birth India China Reasonable Japan Birth Control China And Japan

Book:The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

“Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business. But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.”

Ifs Writing Believe Reality Doubt Pieces Serious Paper Absolutes Regard Skepticism Infallible Make Believe Absolute Truth Serious Business Pedantry

Book:Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

“I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will just state what I think about them. They are illegal and ought to be suppressed. I would never countenance that which recognizes their legality.”

Ifs Thinking States Doubt Ought Labor Illegal Countenance Boycott Legality

Author:William Howard Taft

“The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.”

Ifs Thinking Men Country States Character Ability Doubt Judging Lows South Fallen Disgrace Benches Judiciary Federal Judges

Author:William Howard Taft

“It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.”

Ifs Want Should Whole Earth Existence History Doubt Willing Evidence Strikes Ridiculous Doubted

Book:On Certainty

Source: On Certainty

“Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.”

People Ifs Lasts Asks President Doubt Week Chiefs Staff Invitations Inviting Predecessors Chief Of Staff

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.”

“What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?”

“When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?”

Ifs Men Years May Use Might Asks My Own Answers Doubt Policy Fields Flower Late Garden Conviction Strokes Domain Inheritance Wheat Ballots Pastures

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“If we love our neighbor we shall without doubt tell him the good news of Jesus. But equally if we truly love our neighbor we shall not stop there.”

Ifs Jesus Doubt News Neighbor Good News

Author:John Stott

“If I put my mind to it, and I put the work in, I have no doubt I could do it (pitch 4-5 additional years), but I made a promise to the people who've supported me for so many years. It's time to give back to my family.”

People Ifs Giving Years Mind Made Doubt Promise My Family No Doubt Giving Back

Author:Roger Clemens

“A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.”

Ifs Self Difficult Results Attitude Doubt Too Much Doors Easier Communicate Compassionate Suspicion Self Centered Narcissistic Wise Man Once Said Self Absorbed Egocentric Social Interaction

Author:Dalai Lama

“The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.”

Ifs Wells Done Doubt Succeed Conscience Philosopher Genuine Well Done

Author:Morris Raphael Cohen

“The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt.”

Ifs World War Purpose Wish Effort Known Doubt Subjects Willing Depends Majority Aggression World History Against War

Author:Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

“I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.”

Ifs Government Would Be Order Strong Poor Liberty Democracy Rich Doubt Effects Military Property Democratic Saved Smallest Civilisation Plunder Democratic Government

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.”

People Ifs Should Has Beens Moments Lasts Three Doubt Century Should Have Sunday Civilized Should Have Been Sabbath Day Of Rest

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“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.”

Ifs May Said Doubt Journey Vices Host Life Journey Lodges

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.”

Ifs Should Lasts Winning Force Doubt Balance Equal Ambition No Doubt Prize

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time.”

Ifs May Long Time Doubt Greater Buddhism Perception Long Time Enlightenment Good Things Caught Conviction Zen Buddhism

Book:Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition

“And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also?”

Ifs Inspirational Firsts Reason Lying Found Religious Doubt Acceptance Depends Ultimate Mere Mortals Outcomes Trusted Retreat God's Love Conditional Mere Mortals

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.”

Source: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

“Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.”

Source: The Recovery of Confidence

“I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.”

Ifs Hard Hurt Work Doubt Hard Work

Author:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

“Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Believe Character Liberty Doubt Changed Fit Mountain

Author:Mehmed the Conqueror

“there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. ... As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly - just once too often - when the other longed to be left in peace.”

Ifs Sometimes Matter Facts Earth Left Party Doubt Creatures Murder Wide No Doubt Length Meaningless Bores Shut Up Matter Of Fact Impulsive Babbling

Author:J. E. Buckrose

“If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment, may we not all pledge to avoid the silly censoring that can lead to a codification of Orwell's Newspeak? Consider John Milton's reasons for why good arguments are often lost: 'For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!'”

Ifs Want Should Humans May Reason Care Lost Issues Doubt Internet Integrity Achievement Argument Breaths Silly Accomplishment No Doubt Free Speech Who Cares Pledge Milton Censoring

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in the act of writing you will learn the rest of what you need to know in order to do justice to your subject.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Order Passion Justice Doubt Subjects Elements Projects Genuine Crafts

Book:Writing a Book That Makes a Difference

Source: Writing a Book That Makes a Difference

“In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.”

Ifs Action Spirit Force Waiting Clear Doubt Patience Uncertainty Restraint

Author:Lettie Cowman

“However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they who gradually introduce reality which is so often the enemy of impulse. There is anger with mother and hatred is somewhere even when there is absolutely no doubt of love that is mixed with adoration.”

Ifs World Hard Reality Jobs Mother Enemy Doubt Hatred Impulse No Doubt Introducing Representatives Realism Adoration

Author:Donald Woods Winnicott

“If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause”

Ifs Ideas Choices Causes Doubt Effects Entertainment Curse Uncomfortable Labour Delusion Over Confidence

Author:Jim Rohn

“If anyone cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of feeling at all. From the enduring wonder of the heavens flows all grace and power. If anyone thinks it is mindless then he himself must be out of his mind.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Mind Looks Feelings Heaven Stars Wonder Doubt Grace Capable Flow Endure Look Up Mindless Power Of God

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.”

Ifs Life Christian Life Is Doubt Information Materials Dancing Christian Life No Doubt Daring Biblical

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“I doubt if 5% of professing Christians in America are born again-and that's true of England!”

Ifs Christian America Born Doubt England Born Again

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

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