#guesses

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

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The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers. ↗

— Yoko Ogawa

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The best of seers is he who guesses well. ↗

— Euripides

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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Second guesses in putting are fatal. ↗

— Bobby Locke

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When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do. ↗

— Diana Lopez

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When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow. ↗

— David Strathairn

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