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Dubious Quotes

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 been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary Picture Quote #1

The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record Picture Quote #1

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious Picture Quote #1

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends Picture Quote #1

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting Picture Quote #1

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it Picture Quote #1

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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 professional sports Picture Quote #1

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 everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes Picture Quote #1

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has Picture Quote #1

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much Picture Quote #1

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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 in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them Picture Quote #1

I’m not a pacifist by any measure, but I’m also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious Picture Quote #1

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 obviously sentient beings. Any rational person understands the striking difference between slitting the throat of a sentient animal and plucking a fruit or a vegetable Picture Quote #1

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 loyalty Picture Quote #1

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 and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement Picture Quote #1

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 dubious ideas Picture Quote #1

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Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system Picture Quote #1

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit Picture Quote #1

I can be fairly optimistic, but I’m probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism’s an interesting quality, isn’t it, because I’m always slightly dubious as to what’s behind it? Picture Quote #1

The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody Picture Quote #1

PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done. And it's our job to stop them Picture Quote #1

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war Picture Quote #1

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This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover’s presence Picture Quote #1

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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 been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary (Dubious Quotes) The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record (Dubious Quotes) The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious (Dubious Quotes) The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends (Dubious Quotes) To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting (Dubious Quotes) The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it (Dubious Quotes) 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 professional sports (Dubious Quotes) 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 everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes (Dubious Quotes) I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has (Dubious Quotes) Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting (Dubious Quotes) 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 (Dubious Quotes) 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 is a writer’s habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much (Dubious Quotes) 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 in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them (Dubious Quotes) I’m not a pacifist by any measure, but I’m also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious (Dubious Quotes) 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 obviously sentient beings. Any rational person understands the striking difference between slitting the throat of a sentient animal and plucking a fruit or a vegetable (Dubious Quotes) 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 loyalty (Dubious Quotes) 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 and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement (Dubious Quotes) 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 dubious ideas (Dubious Quotes) Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system (Dubious Quotes) I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit (Dubious Quotes) I can be fairly optimistic, but I’m probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism’s an interesting quality, isn’t it, because I’m always slightly dubious as to what’s behind it? (Dubious Quotes) The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody (Dubious Quotes) PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done. And it's our job to stop them (Dubious Quotes) Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war (Dubious Quotes) This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover’s presence (Dubious Quotes)

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