- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doubtless Quotes
On the things said with quiet, qualified certainty.
These quotes use 'doubtless' as a careful hedge, wondering what in childhood doubtless shapes a career, or reasoning that banks will doubtless keep operating so long as they follow the law. Read more in Art quotes.
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- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
- Brotherly
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
- Effected
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- Nov 07, 2020
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Online education and technology are doubtless going to change how we learn in the years ahead. Remote learning is inexpensive and brings down the cost of near-universal access.
- Editor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020