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• It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you had it to do over." It's not out there.

  Nora Ephron

  Thinking, Games, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What if there were no hypothetical situations?

  Christopher Jones

  What If, Situation, Ifs

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• I'm not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don't know.

  John F. Kerry

  Energy, Knows

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Donald Trump is never going to be the nominee. So, I'm not worried about a hypothetical that's never going to happen.

  Marco Rubio

  Worried, Trump, Happens

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

  John Yarmuth

  Real, Problem, Real Problems

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• It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.

  Jim Peebles

  Matter, Embarrassment, Form

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• Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

  Jasper Fforde

  World, Imagine, Situation

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.225, Penguin

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• They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

  Isabel Allende

  Order, World, Advantage

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• The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Opposites, Purpose, Done

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• I think we are in this era right now where every element in a webpage is rendered to within an inch of its life. I think if it's a button, it looks like a physical button, you know, if it's a mailbox that's meant to signal a messaging functionality then the whole mailbox right down to the rivets on the hypothetical metallic housing is rendered.

  Khoi Vinh

  Thinking, Elements, Eras

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Never answer a hypothetical question.

  Moshe Arens

  Answers

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• Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Physicians, Use

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• Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Ontology, Logic, Mathematics

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.481, Penguin

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• Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.

  A. J. Liebling

  Stupid, Wine, Men

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• Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Get Well, Organization, World

  "'Obama Is Average'". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Suffering, Doe, Interest

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

  Andrew Sarris

  Nice, People, Directors

  "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.

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• [About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Loyalty, Jobs, Science

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• With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack solely for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic wasn't even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.

  Ann Coulter

  Long, People, Leader

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• Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Unique, Bed, Needs

  Milton H. Erickson, Jeffrey K. Zeig, Brent B. Geary (2000). “The Letters of Milton H. Erickson”, p.17, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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• When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.

  J. J. Abrams

  Real, Spectacular, Theoretical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

  George Jean Nathan

  Fashion, Clothes, Loyal And Faithful

  1921 The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls,'Woman'.

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• Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

  Walter Martin

  Atheism, Matter, Responsible

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• Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.

  Tom Robbins

  Truth, Blue, Balls

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