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“Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.”

People Should Care Used Heaven Grows Interest Wonder Doubt Atheism Effects Doctors Mark Positive Atheism Lawyer Sickness Priests Wrath Lawsuit

Author:Pierre Bayle

“That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.”

Thinking Real Ends Hard Might Doubt Mark Heavy No Doubt Cheeks

Book:Lucy: A Novel

Source: Lucy: A Novel

“It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.”

“Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are dangerously out of line with social facts.”

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Book:Law and the Modern Mind

Source: Law and the Modern Mind

“To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.”

Men Firsts May Today Action Past Principles Doubt Fool Tomorrow Mark Consistent Civilized Refuge Consistency

Author:Hyman Rickover

“Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.”

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Book:The Letters of Mark Twain

Source: The Letters of Mark Twain

“Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.”

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Author:Steven J Lawson