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Never answer a hypothetical question.
Moshe Arens / Former Defence Minister Of Israel
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I don't answer deeply hypothetical questions.
Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis /
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What if there were no hypothetical situations?
Christopher Jones / Actor
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Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
Joan Baez / Singer
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I will not discuss future hypothetical situations.
Ehud Barak / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.
Dan Mangan / Musician
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Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.
Alan Moore / Writer
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Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.
John Yarmuth / U.s. Representative
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I can't deal in ifs or in hypothetical situations. I only deal in absolutes.
Paul Heyman / Professional Wrestling Manager
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Never answer a hypothetical question. It gets you beyond where you want to be.
George H. W. Bush / 41St U.s. President
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The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
Sidney Altman /
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
Dan Savage / Author
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You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.
Bill Bennett /
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I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
Thom Gunn / Poet
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I'm not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don't know.
John F. Kerry / United States Secretary Of State
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Donald Trump is never going to be the nominee. So, I'm not worried about a hypothetical that's never going to happen.
Marco Rubio / United States Senator
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Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.
Brian Stableford / Fiction Writer
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Elementary
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Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
Ezekiel Emanuel / Medical Doctor
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Euthanasia
Hypothetical
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Suicide
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To say that we should engage in some hypothetical about, 'Will I vote for Trump,' that's defeatist. I'm not going to be a defeatist.
Cory Gardner /
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No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.
Carl Jung / Psychiatrist
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We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
Craig Venter / Geneticist
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Environmentalists get in the way. They often ask the right questions, but they're chasing the wrong answers - often hypothetical or uneconomic solutions.
Vinod Khosla / Businessman
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Chasing
Hypothetical
Right Questions
Solutions
Environmentalists
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
Dana Schutz / Artist
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I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.
Andrew Sarris / Film Critic
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The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual.
Mark Helprin / Novelist
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I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I'd get rattled.
Sanjay Dutt / Film Actor
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House
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People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
Kary Mullis / Author
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All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study.
Wilfred Owen / Poet
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I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.
Rand Paul / United States Senator
East
Hypothetical
Middle
Middle East
Secular
Stability
Dictators
Good Idea
Outcome
Thereafter
Topple
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We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.
Robert Lanza / Scientist
Continuing
Entity
Extensions
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I mean, obviously when you've a lot of time on your hands, you get together and you're always always debating that team vs. that team, that player vs. that player, all these hypothetical matchups.
Quinn Cook /
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Net neutrality rules have been premised on the incentives and ability of ISPs to engage in harmful conduct, not actual harms. I don't believe we should be regulating based on hypothetical problems.
Michael O'rielly /
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
J. J. Abrams / Television Producer
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Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.
Jenny Zhang /
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International
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If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.
Mary Roach / Author
Average
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Human Body
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Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When I have them before me, I am up against a real opponent rather than a hypothetical one that is an easy target for me to hit.
Lewis B. Smedes / Author
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I would much prefer to be overseas in a covert capacity working on issues, but that is hypothetical. That is no longer open to me. So if I can use my voice in this manner, and talk about something that I care about, then I feel fortunate.
Valerie Plame / Author
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Fiction is an easy way to talk about issues: I think it feels less preachy. You can have the students discuss characters in the book as opposed to hypothetical situations, or as opposed to opening up about themselves, unless they really want to.
Jay Asher / Writer
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Walter Lippmann / Writer
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Dogmatic
Honesty
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Simple
Unfamiliar
Things
Truth Great People
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Often
Distant
Great Masses
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People can see themselves in a story much easier than they can see themselves in a hypothetical situation that a brand might present to them. So telling stories to build a relationship with your audience is usually far more effective than other methods of marketing or publicity.
Lewis Howes /
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
Randy Pausch / Professor
Academic
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One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to encounter. You picture his reactions, his advice, his sage commentary and humorous asides. For instance, I think about Mark Twain's hypothetical take on current events several times a week.
Paul Di Filippo / Writer
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Humorous
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Mark
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Sage
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Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.
Ginnifer Goodwin / Film Actress
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Comedy
Hypothetical
Needed
Projects
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Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.
Martin Seligman / Psychologist
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