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“This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.”

Wells Novel Doubt Please Prove Teenage Chill Wayne Protagonists Dazzling Debut Endearing Cleaver

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?”

“Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.”

Virtue Doubt Sea Prove Rivers Rewards Fishes Boat Pleasant Lakes Fishing Angling

Book:The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:

Source: The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:

“If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.”

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists whom I employ to prove it) that Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue.”

People Should Mind Names Work Doubt Dangerous Taste Drug Prove Scientist No Doubt Destructive Fatigue Indulge Prove It

Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

“Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable number of worlds. Would it be at all astonishing if, from the universal dice-box, out of an innumberable number of throws, there should be thrown out one world infinitely perfect? Nay, does not the calculus of probabilities prove to us that one such world out of an infinite number, must be produced of necessity?”

Ifs World Should Doe Matter Force Perfect Numbers Doubt Prove Universal Infinite Boxes Thrown Unlimited Probability Astonishing Dice Calculus Mould Forces Of Nature

Author:William Batchelder Greene

“Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.”

Looks May Turns Fear Doubt Objects Prove Difficulty Tables Ghost Doctrine Twilight Ghastly

Book:The Recreations of a Country Parson

Source: The Recreations of a Country Parson

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.”

May Self Doubt Fool Hero Prove Obstacles Heroic Heroism Truest Greatest Obstacles

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.”

Character Evil Doubt Crime Cold Terrible Prove Landscape Novelists Heat Reasonable Good And Evil Brutal Nurture Frozen Vivid Blunt Reasonable Doubt Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Author:Lee Child

“Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under known options) is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence.”

Way Process Existence Known Doubt Evolution Prove Scary Reasonable Reasonable Doubt

Author:Kent Hovind

“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

“The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.”

Mean Heaven Doubt Prove Eternity No Doubt Impossibility Crow

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“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?”

“Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.”

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.”

Knows May Self Wisdom Doubt Fool Ought Prove Obstacles Heroic Heroism Truest Greatest Obstacles

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?”

Men Should Children Doe Art Christian Father Doubt Brother Prove Creatures Regard Jew My Brother Tolerate Great Art Eloquence

Book:Candide

Source: Candide

“You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.”

Knows Doubt Prove Seeking Doubted

Author:John Denham

“It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it.”

Doe Would Be Wealth Doubt Prove Gold Valuable Ridiculous No Doubt Silver Small Parts Purchasing Gold And Silver

Book:An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner

Source: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner

“I'm a fighter. So if you're going to doubt me or say that I can't do something, I'm going to prove to you I can do it. And when I do it, hopefully I earn your respect and you'll know it didn't come easy to me.”

Ifs Knows I Can Easy Can Do Doubt Prove Fighter Hopefully I Can Do It Doubt Me

Author:LaMarcus Aldridge

“We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.”

Ifs Stills Doubt Directors Prove Shadow Direct Responsible Mad Handle Budgets Ducks Schedules Brilliance Visionaries Irresponsible

Author:Sarah Polley

“You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.”

Years Problem House Born White Half Doubt Republican Prove Reasonable White House Sane Staff Reasonable Doubt Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Author:Dan Quayle

“Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.”

Men Wells Persons Has Beens Shows Evil Easy Opinion Doubt Written Trouble Hero Thousand Prove Occasions Convince Sensible Convincing Undertakings

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war.”

“I've always given people the benefit of the doubt until they prove me otherwise.”

People Given Doubt Prove Benefits Benefit Of The Doubt

Author:Boris Kodjoe