Dubious Quotes
88 quotes by 83 authors
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs,…
— Hannah Arendt
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That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington…
— Daniel Okrent
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The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
— Max Lerner
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Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and…
— Robert Adams
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Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
— Freeman Dyson
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Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of…
— Henry Rollins
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Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the…
— Colin McGinn
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There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of…
— Sydney J. Harris
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I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange. This number, as…
— Craig F. Bohren
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I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's…
— Ron Chernow
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Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies…
— Blaise Cendrars
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The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldnt find a place for their dubious talents…
— L. Neil Smith
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The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.
— S. J. Perelman
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Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible,…
— Jon Krakauer
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For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of…
— Seth Lloyd
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My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up…
— Robert M. Price
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And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists…
— Adam Parfrey
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Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
— Rory Stewart
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Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.
— Gene Cernan
Who Wrote These Dubious Quotes
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