60 Quotes About Speculation
- Author Vernor Vinge
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Here we begin frank speculation. And since we are speculating, we'll use those powerful pseudo-laws, the Principles of Mediocrity and Minimal Assumption.
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- Author Émile Zola
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Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.
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- Author Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The universe has never made one of anything, so why would there even be one of itself?
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- Author Sunday Adelaja
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Confrontation is better than speculations.
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- Author Alexander Hamilton
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It is very extraordinary, if the head of the money department of a country, being unprincipled enough to sacrifice his trust and his integrity, could not have contrived objects of profit sufficiently large to have engaged the co-operation of men of far greater importance than Reynolds, and with whom there could have been due safety, and should have been driven to the necessity of unkennelling such a reptile to be the instrument of his cupidity.
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- Author J.D. Robb
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Goddamn Summerset. I've told him to leave my car when I park it.""I think he did." Peabody flipped on her sunshades, pointed. "It's blocking the drive, see?""Oh, yeah." Eve cleared her throat. The car was just as she'd left it, and fluttering in the mild breeze were a few torn articles of clothing. "Don't ask," she muttered and started to hoof it down the drive."I wasn't going to." Peabody's voice was smooth as silk, "Speculation's more interesting.
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- Author John Kenneth Galbraith
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The basic speculative impulse, which is to believe whatever best serves the good fortune you are experiencing.
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- Author Sylvia Day
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Speculation is necessary in business, but in affairs of the heart, it often leads to poor judgement.
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- Author Elizabeth Peters
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Speculation,' I retorted, 'is never a waste of time. It clears away the deadwood in the thickets of deduction.
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