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The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Conjecture Empirical Even Frontier Globe Human Inference Knowledge Last Measurement Mix Ocean Product Scientific

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In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.

~Alexander Dubcek

Topics: Anything Army Arrival Comrades Conjecture Could Day First Found Happened Here Isolated Knowing Not Knowing Only Other Ourselves Soviet Then Were I Can

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Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Absorb Beds Books Bunk Conjecture Embarked Entirely Every Every Night Find Lately Lives Made Much Night Out Pictures Pointed Pretty Sons Them Themselves

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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

~Arthur Machen

Topics: Before Boots Brown Committed Conjecture Dreams Dress Evening Face Forgetfulness He Hid His Man Often Red Safe Sheer Sin Sun Tie Which Wore

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In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

~Catherine The Great

Topics: Capable Circumstances Conjecture Guided Must Politics Ruler

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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

~David Brainerd

Topics: Athens Conjecture Designed Discoveries Existence Faint Few Formed Future Geniuses Had Human Human Soul Man Nature Probable Rome Some Soul Spiritual State

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Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Conjecture Everything Feeling Here Look Narcissistic Nature Obeying Out Sometimes Think Wonderfully I Think

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