"Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd." — William Cowper

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• The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation… — Hannah Arendt
• That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have… — Daniel Okrent
• The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection… — Max Lerner
• Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring,… — Robert Adams
• Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs. — Freeman Dyson
• Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the… — Henry Rollins
• Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His… — Colin McGinn
• There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life,… — Robert A. Heinlein
• American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people.… — Sydney J. Harris
• I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate… — Craig F. Bohren
• I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away… — Ron Chernow
• Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a… — Blaise Cendrars

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