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“If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor.”

Ifs Persons Long Might Doubt Ego Wounds Driving Wealthy Golfers Tractors

Author:Fuzzy Zoeller

“The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.”

Long Sides Doubt Beam Doubtful

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the use of young people, by W.C. Macready

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the use of young people, by W.C. Macready

“Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.”

Ifs Long War Fighting Doubt Long Time Army Superiors Destroyed Artillery Infantry Demoralized

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.”

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Author:James Henry Breasted

“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.”

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Author:William Wrigley, Jr.

“It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which they can influence, with more importunity of solicitation to adopt their opinions. In proportion as they doubt the truth of their own doctrines, they are desirous to gain the attestation of another understanding: and industriously labour to win a proselyte, and eagerly catch at the slightest pretense to dignify their sect with a distinguished name.”

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.”

Ifs Long Doubt Plans Missing

Author:Roger Ebert

“The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time to come. Like monogamy, it is not completely satisfactory, but, like monogamy, it has won general if somewhat grudging acquiescence.”

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Author:Thomas A. Bailey

“You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do not even doubt yourself to be Mr. So-and-so, there is little hope. When you refuse to open your eyes, what can you be shown?”

Littles Persons Long Eye Doubt Refuse

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.”

Long Has Beens Evil House Fear Difficult Black White Taken Doubt Taught Neighbor Granted Witch Provoking Yards Validity Taken For Granted Unchanging Stampede

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.”

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Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.”

Men Wells Long Universe Answers Knowing Doubt Alive Creating Tools Threat Enthusiasm Meaninglessness

Book:The Courage To Be

Source: The Courage To Be

“I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago.”

Thinking Long Gone Doubt Long Time Long Time Ago

Author:Gloria Estefan