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Tag Name "Speculation" (232)

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The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.
George Washington
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Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
Charles Lyell
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth... Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a beginning, and when it was, it is written in the rocks that, like the animals and plants upon its surface, the earth itself grew.
Elisha Gray
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It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing.
Jim Dodge
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
Bernard Baruch
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The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.
David Hume
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The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.
William Crookes
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Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
Bernie Sanders
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In love as in speculation there is much filth in love also, people think only of their own gratification yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
Emile Zola
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
Francis Bacon
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...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.
Gilbert Burnet
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I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
Margaret Atwood
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Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.
Lisa Randall
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Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
Joseph Addison
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An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
John Keats
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In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.
John Lanchester
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The only time you know for sure whether creating a result is possible or not is when you have done it. All other thoughts on the matter are simply speculation.
Robert Fritz
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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.
Michael Crichton
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You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.
Bernie Sanders
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The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.
Henry David Thoreau
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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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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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