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• You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them at all.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Lonely, Knowing, Feelings

  Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.144, Penguin

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• I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Teenage, Honey

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• In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.

  Natsuo Kirino

  Reality, Order, People

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• There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.

  Richard Brautigan

  Dog, Heart, Sheep

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• For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giddy

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.549, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Christian, Use, Utterance

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• Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.

  Ricky Gervais

  Humble, Practice, Atheism

  "Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist" by Ricky Gervais, blogs.wsj.com. December 19, 2010.

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• and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Carl Hiaasen (2014). “Carl Hiaasen Collection: Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp”, p.201, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called...Divergent.

  Veronica Roth

  Ideas, People, Waiting

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• Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.

  Osamu Tezuka

  Arrogance, Kitsch, Resistance

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• In the dime stores and bus stations
 People talk of situations
 Read books, repeat quotations
 Draw conclusions on the wall
 Some speak of the future
 My love she speaks softly
 She knows there’s no success like failure
 And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)

  Bob Dylan

  Zero, Wall, Book

  Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)

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• I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.

  Peter De Vries

  Stars, Joy, Negative

  Peter De Vries (2012). “The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel”, p.164, University of Chicago Press

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• You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

  Julian Assange

  Lying, Ignorance, Decision

  "Julian Assange, monk of the online age who thrives on intellectual battle". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

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• I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

  Harper Lee

  People, Peculiar

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Speak, Existential, Moments

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• I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Success, Years, Experience

  1953 ‘InYour Garden Again’.

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• The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the bodhichitta teachings, the only way to practice them fully, is to abide in the unconditional openness of the prajna, patiently cutting through all our tendencies to hang on.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Block, Teaching

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• Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

  Georgette Heyer

  Needs, Done, Littles

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• Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Cities, Mind

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• Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Simple, Stories

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.462, Macmillan

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• Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words

  Bisco Hatori

  Boredom, Temper, Hard Words

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• Conclusion 2: There's nothing more demonic than two bored twins. ~Signed Tamaki

  Bisco Hatori

  Two, Bored, Twins

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• The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Thinking, Self, Hands

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.42, Penguin

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• As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sacred, Machines, Collide

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Book, Thinking, Research

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.462, Macmillan

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