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Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
Hal Clement
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
Jonathan Edwards
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The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
James Cook
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Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.
El Greco
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
William Hazlitt
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Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.
Michael Faraday
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I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.
Jack Vance
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Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.
Thomas Jefferson
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Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
Paul Getty
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Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.
George Soros
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I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.
Lauren London
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Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present.
Ludwig von Mises
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Well they do have drug testing at all the majors and there will be a lot of speculation about what in the world is wrong with Serena Williams and we will find out as much as we can.
Pam Shriver
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Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -
Louisa May Alcott
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Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.
Albert Einstein
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
John Herschel
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I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.
John C. Bogle
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one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another
John Keats
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If you're doing a good job as author, then you get the reader to engage in whatever speculation might be called for. And it's much more meaningful for the reader, if he or she comes up with the questions.
Russell Freedman
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You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.
Eike Batista
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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
J. I. Packer
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Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.
John Milton
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Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation
Warren Buffett
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We're obviously in speculation territory here, because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to do.
Judy Woodruff
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Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.
Michael Helm
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I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.
Chuck Yeager
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These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.
Noam Chomsky
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The single most effective way to get rid of rumor and speculation is to be transparent.
Phil Cooke
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Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.
Marc Anthony
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But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?
Kiera Cass
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Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.
P. D. James