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• Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

  Alice Munro

  Desire, Driven, Gentle

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.286, Vintage

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• It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  World, Littles, Inspired

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.35, Atlântico Press

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• The worst thing about talk ... is that there's no way to lay it to rest. Every fresh breeze brings a new speculation.

  Susan Wittig Albert

  Way, Breeze, Worst

  Susan Wittig Albert (2005). “The Tale of Hill Top Farm”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Independent, Understanding, Bangs

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

  Winston Churchill

  Zoos, Wife, Curiosity

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

  Michael Behe

  Serendipity, Luck, Mutation

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• Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sight, Enjoy, Provoking

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• It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Firsts, Hinduism

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm pretty far out of the loop. There's always a lot of speculation and what-have-you. I'm sure it's fun for people to watch and have fantasies of who might go where. The reality is, guys will change teams.

  Andrew Ference

  Fun, Team, Reality

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• The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.

  James Joyce

  Art, Plato, Spring

  James Joyce (2016). “Ulysses”, p.188, First Avenue Editions

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• The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature

  John Berger

  Pain, Philosophical, Space

  John Berger (2011). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”, p.69, Vintage

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• We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hate, Struggle

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Madison Square Garden, New York City, October 31, 1936).

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• He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Affection, Engaged

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.238

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• Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.42, Penguin

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• If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Two, Diversity, Unity

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• There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

  Soong May-ling

  Peace, Business, Shadow

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• Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Book, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.122, Vintage

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• Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

  Michael Crichton

  Intellectual, Academia, Virtue

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• Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Modern, Vulgar

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.125, University of Toronto Press

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• I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Spring, Feelings

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, p. 68, 1999.

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• Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Opinion, Ends

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• I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.

  George Clooney

  Weekend, Winning, Awards

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Theres a lot of speculation on what the zombie apocalypse thing means. I have a feeling that its kind of an expression of our subconscious fears. I think we know that something big and impossible - some enormous crash, equalizing crash, whatever - may be coming around the corner.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Mean, Thinking, Expression

  "Mark Pellegrino of 'Being Human' gets 'Lost' in gods, monsters". Interview with Aaron Sagers, geekout.blogs.cnn.com. February 23, 2012.

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• Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.

  Teju Cole

  Sight, Sky, Indulge In

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Order, Two, People

  First Inaugural Address, Delivered 4 March 1933

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