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• Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.

  Steven Saylor

  Men, Poet, Contradiction

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• Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss the vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Thinking, Waiting, Missing

  Jacqueline Winspear (2003). “Maisie Dobbs”, p.26, Soho Press

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• I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma is curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening - a portal opening to emotional and genuine spiritual transformation. I have little doubt that as individuals, families, communities, and even nations, we have the capacity to learn how to heal and prevent much of the damage done by trauma. In so doing, we will significantly increase our ability to achieve both our individual and collective dreams.

  Peter A. Levine

  Dream, Spiritual, Believe

  "Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body". Book by Peter A. Levine, 2005.

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• If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage.

  Alexander Kotov

  Games, Trying, Majority

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• It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Iron, Views

  Charles Horton Cooley (1909). “Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order”, Glencoe, Ill., Free P

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• This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Animal, Essence, Class

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450

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• For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, “Can I believe this?”, but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, “Must I believe this?

  Thomas Gilovich

  Believe, I Believe, Asks

  Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal of hysterical laughter.

  Keith Laumer

  Baby, Laughter, Answers

  Keith Laumer (2016). “Night of Delusions”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism is my opinion.

  Jerry DeWitt

  Years, Atheism, Ministry

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• Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

  Jan Potocki

  Memories, Order, Ideas

  Jan Potocki (2006). “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa”, p.309, Penguin UK

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• Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Zoos, Animal, Should Have

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• I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.

  Jennifer Worth

  Medicine, Doe, Know It All

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• It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.

  Marcia Angell

  Believe, Editors, Two

  "Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption". www.nybooks.com. January 15, 2009.

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• The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

  Donald Antrim

  Simple, Color, Knowing

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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• One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

  Frederick Buechner

  Earth, Fool, Enough

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Feb 20, 2017

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• Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.

  David Brooks

  Talking, Years, Interesting

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• Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

  Amory Lovins

  Facts, Fantasy, Bases

  "Sparks Fly" by James Howard Kunstler and Amory Lovins, www.salon.com. May 27, 2005.

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• Never assume that you have attained truth. Don't make any claim to knowledge. Form no conclusion or evaluation concerning truth. The minute you do, your downfall is assured. Whenever you imagine you know something, you cease being open to the living exploration. You have closed a door and cut off the oxygen to the breathing truth.

  Mooji

  Cutting, Doors, Oxygen

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• If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the fundamental concepts of any particular science for those of metaphysics.

  Etienne Gilson

  Adventure, Analysis, Fundamentals

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• I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.

  Myles Horton

  Thinking, Ideas, Work Out

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• The biggest lie is the idea that we are entitled to a meaningful and coherent summarizing, a conclusion, of something which never concludes. In that regard, this is the lie I'm telling myself so I don't set fire to anything.

  David Milch

  Meaningful, Lying, Fire

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• Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.

  Steven James

  Uncomfortable, Evidence, Ifs

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• Well, the world has changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look: Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?

  Alan Grant

  Running, Men, Years

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• I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Dark, Light, Needs

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Apr 13, 2016

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• After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

  Michael Foley

  Long, Trying, Passionate

  Michael Foley (2012). “Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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