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“The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.”

Writing Sound Doubt Definitions Mathematical No Doubt Logical Owing Reassuring

Book:From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-philosophical Essays

Source: From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-philosophical Essays

“I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not be stifled or concealed; second, that there is no ground for the view that Christianity is the only alternative to communism, or that there can be no sound character training that is not based on religion; and, third, I want to make some practical suggestions to the parents who are not believers, on what they should tell the children about God, and what sort of moral training they should give them.”

“It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.”

Self Helping Reality Seems Lasts Sound Imagination Doubt Our Lives Expression Pressure Analysis No Doubt Preservation Self Preservation

Book:The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

“None within the sound of my voice should be in any doubt concerning what is moral and what is not, nor should any be in doubt about what is expected of us ... We have been and continue to be taught God's laws. Despite what you may see or hear elsewhere, these laws are unchanging.”

Should May Has Beens Law Sound Voice Moral Doubt Taught Expected Despite Elsewhere Unchanging

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.”

Long Real Humanity Language Sound Emotion Doubt Color Goes On Intellectual Imitation Real Things Recreation

Book:Writings, 1932-1946

Source: Writings, 1932-1946

“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.”

“A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.”

Mind May Matter Whole Body America Time Sound Change Challenges Ability Accepting Doubt Acceptance Citizens Loyalty Cease Doctrine Instant Officials Republic Loyal Questioning

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be...I never tried to imitate anybody, but when you love somebody's music, you're influenced...I really don't know how I developed my sound, but it comes from a combination of my musical conception and no doubt the basic shape of the oral cavity.”

Knows Should Sound Know How Doubt Shapes Musical Combination No Doubt Conception

Author:Stan Getz

“What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize.”

Trying Doe Spiritual Sound Realizing Doubt Stones Treats Patterns Conviction Woods Impulse Planes Sculpture Sequence Polish Mold Lyrical Craftsman Fugue

Author:Dylan Thomas

“The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“I'm always doubting because I've been told so much that, you're not the right look or you're not the right sound, and, you know, whether I do jazz or R&B there are always complaints.”

Knows Looks Sound Doubt Jazz Complaints

Author:Ledisi

“The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.”

Mind Ideas Character Jobs Sound President Doubt Serious Judgment No Doubt Good Ideas Presidency Great Presidents Sound Judgment

Author:George W. Bush

“There are people who want to import the dregs of the world into this country in order to cut this country down to size. Do not doubt me on this. I know it sounds hard to believe. Those people will be found somewhere on the political spectrum, and they vote Democrat.”

People Knows World Want Believe Country Hard Political Order Found Sound Doubt Cutting Vote Democrat Size Spectrum Imports Hard To Believe Dregs Political Spectrum Doubt Me

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The symphonic sounds of nature awaken every cell in my body and, in that moment, without a doubt, I am truly alive.”

Moments Body Sound Doubt Alive Cells That Moment

Author:Ian Somerhalder