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“Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.”

World Writing Book Facts Novel Doubt Ready Reader Assuming Prepared Nonfiction Be Prepared Legion

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization - as well as others. The testimony given before the Senate of the United States which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the Russian Revolution.”

“There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.”

World America Doubt No Doubt Superpower Super Power

Author:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus really know which of the twelve would betray him? I doubt it.”

Ifs Knows World Spiritual Young Dies Jesus Doubt Aspect Betray Twelve Naive Spiritual Beings Die Young

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.”

People World Way Believe Young Choices I Believe Doubt Shadow Frightening Right Choices

Author:Lois Lowry

“As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them vote. For me, there is no doubt as to who is the best, year after year.”

World Years Sometimes Doubt Vote Cups No Doubt Criteria World Cup Best Year Vote For Me

Author:David Villa

“The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.”

Men World May Children Jobs Order Chance Cases Knowing Doubt Sacrifice Possibility Competition Sake Chosen Confusion Suits Operations Vulnerability Upbringing Exclusion Bleak

Author:Anna Ford

“However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.”

Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

“The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty.”

Men World Spirit Answers Consciousness Doubt Uncertainty Contemplation Our World Relative Questioning Contemplating Turmoil Doubtful Upheaval Hesitant

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.”

Thinking World Mind Doubt Information Huge Happenings Flow China Access No Doubt Plus Censorship Preventing Outside World Information Flow

Author:Bill Gates

“I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.”

World Art Felt Doubt Reflection Weak Unprepared

Author:Edgar Degas

“As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.”

World Force Doubt Members Benefits Training Advantage No Doubt Temperance Armed Forces

Author:William Lyon Mackenzie King

“If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.”

Ifs World Use Motivational Law Belief Goal Powerful Doubt Possibility This World Habit Realms Being The Best Most Powerful Disbelief Doing You Realm Of Possibility

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.”

Ifs World Should Reality Nature Doubt Changed Leaving Creator Senses Strict Another World

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.”

Men World Feels Helping Nations Black White Accepting Doubt This World Tasks Burden Heavy Black And White Better Place Places To Live

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.”

People World Country Done Doubt Special Unique Capacity Indian Interaction Something Special Shrewdness

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world today. There is so much that we don’t know, and so much that we know we don’t know. To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. Determination, on the other hand, is a commitment to win, a commitment to fight the good fight.”

Source: Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

“Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later, amidst life's challenges and doubts, turn from the faith; other people are ignorant of Scripture but educated in the world, and are therefore prone to missing the truth of Scripture - they are often those who ridicule the faith. The apologist stands somewhere in the center. He articulates where some are prone to understanding the truth in beauty, others the beauty in truth - that of a spiritual Creator in relation to his scientific creation.”

People World Sometimes Spiritual Turns Understanding Challenges Doubt Missing Creation Relation Creator Scripture Ignorant Educated Ridicule Relevance

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator or scientist who doubts that is taken to prison or gets condemned. Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true... If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe - like in Germany, Austria or other countries - to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe and we will support it.”

“Canada regards herself as responsible to all mankind for the peculiar ecological balance that now exists so precariously in the water, ice and land areas of the Arctic archipelago. We do not doubt for a moment that the rest of the world would find us at fault, and hold us liable, should we fail to ensure adequate protection of that environment from pollution or artificial deterioration.”

“I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.”

Ifs World Cities Doubt

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.”

World Understanding Consciousness Doubt Divine Regard Conversion Methodology Abjection

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.”

World Feelings Dream Lasts Voice Christ Doubt This World Excellence God Love Your Dreams Wilderness Trust In God Thunder Wraps Deficiency

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.”

Knows Men World Littles Sometimes Mother Found Father Felt Doubt He Man Filled Terror Chiefs Suspects Darling Pirate Whim Irritating Retrospective Spoilt

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.”

World Wells May Mean Facts Fall Views Moral Doubt Materials Blessing Point Of View Contribution Chips Objectivity Doubting Everything

Author:Aldo Leopold

“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.”

“We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.”

World Way Humans Has Beens Made Country Hard Mother Race Known Destiny Doubt Human Nature Accomplish Great Things Our Country Schemes Nativity

Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

“When we are in our studios, in our private space... we need to block out the outside world; we need to disbelieve anything that would doubt us, because - everyone will doubt us if we allow them that space.”

Ifs World Needs Space Doubt Studios Block Outside World

Author:Adam Leipzig

“How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!”

World Important Doubt Quarrels Syllables

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.”

People Ifs Knows World Giving Feels Certain Ability Doubt Limits Behavior Loyalty Devotion Obligation Justify Assured

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society , from politics , from history , for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in doubt , which drives a wedge into the world of false assurances.”

World Reason Causes Issues Doubt Source Criticism Vocation Assurance Triggers Wedges

Book:Hope in Time of Abandonment

Source: Hope in Time of Abandonment

“No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.”

World Past Suffering Doubt Objects Karma Tendencies No Doubt Relative Innate

Author:Sarada Devi

“The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'.”

World Helping Community Doubt Theory Development Threat International China Absurd Absurdity Harmonious International Community

Author:Ye Xiaowen

“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

“Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood.”

People World Mind Body Answers Doubt Seeing Promise Understood Ghost Likes Comforting

Author:Michael Marshall Smith

“It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.”

World Way Self Reason Values Belief Term Doubt Atheism Essentials Logic Method Errors Atheist Checks Deception Agreement Inquiry Self Deception Scientific Method

Author:Richard Carrier

“I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did.”

“I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies. I don't remember what was said that day. All I know is that when I left, everything had changed. I'll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, “It's true. It's completely true.” The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.”

“There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.”

World Want Doubt Proud Capable Rounds Humble Revenge Satisfied Temper Flattery Quarrels Inconsistency Benefactors

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.”

Men World Believe Ideas Action Faith Strong Force Clear Doubt He Man Masters Weak Conviction Possessed Uncertain Unseen Wavering

Book:Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays

Source: Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays

“On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.”

World Soul Reality Stars Doubt Loneliness Hardest Hardest Thing Doubting Everything

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Self Play Seems Doubt Sacrifice Mystery Fairs Nun Clergy

Book:Green Dolphin Street

Source: Green Dolphin Street

“Now, the whole world hears Or shall hear,--surely shall hear, at the last, Though men delay, and doubt, and faint, and fail,-- That promise faithful:--"Fear not, little flock! It is your Father's will and joy, to give To you, the Kingdom"!”

Men World Giving Littles Whole Lasts Joy Father Christianity Doubt Failing Promise Whole World Kingdoms Faithful Delay Flocks Fear Not

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.”

Ifs World Seems Would Be Cities Doubt Century Style Greed Architecture Technique Contemporary No Doubt Chicago Twentieth Century Artistry Downtown Matched All The Best Gauges

Book:Locations

Source: Locations

“Something is amiss, deeply wrong, something is deeply wrong with the way we're living our lives collectively, with the way we are creating our collective experience on earth. And we are coming to the conclusion that the problem after all is not political, that the problem after all is not economic, that the problem after all cannot be solved with bombs or missiles or bullets, but that the problem in fact is spiritual, that the problem with the world today is as it has always been, a problem of our most basic beliefs. Without a doubt it`s a spiritual awakening and a spiritual revolution.”

“The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt.”

World Doe Situation Principles Sun Doubt Regret Blessing Goodness Creating Sacred Notion Oneself Clarity Brilliance Hesitation Descending

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings

“New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.”

“Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.”

World Doubt Stupid Stupidity No Doubt Sheer Egoism Annoyance

Author:George Sand

“The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.”

World Mean Truth Faces Pleasure Doubt Truth Is Profit Driven Contradiction Yield Profitable

Author:Jamaica Kincaid