Dubious Quotes

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Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it… — Ben Hecht
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. — Ben Hecht
There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause same-sex couples to… — Henry Franklin Floyd
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of… — Arthur Ashe
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful. — Ada Louise Huxtable
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives… — John Silber
A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories — George Eliot
So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never… — Albert Hadley
All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game. — Viktor Korchnoi
Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now… — Marcia Angell
There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no justification for killing… — Joanne Stepaniak
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of… — Hubert Harrison
There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political questions of our… — Hannah
It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious… — Albert Kesselring
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy… — Sheldon Richman
I was dubious about the effects of the Alexander Technique when I first went in to experience it, but I found out almost immediately that… — Joanne Woodward
I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious. — Bjorn Ulvaeus
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is… — H. L. Mencken
Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also… — Andrei Sakharov

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