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Skepticism Quotes


"Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted."


"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."


"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."


"It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves."


"I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic."


"Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution."


"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus."


"Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism."


"Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical."


"Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft."


"We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism."


"It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave."


"When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself."
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