Speculation Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Speculation Quotes from famous persons: Sharyl Attkisson, Chris Chibnall, J. Paul Getty, Charlie Sykes, Bernie Sanders. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Speculation Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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News organizations would best serve the public by stick

News organizations would best serve the public by sticking to the facts and the news. Speculation should be minimized.
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The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact.
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Fox News and other Trump-friendly media long ago became fever wards of speculation and conspiracy-mongering as they obsessed over plots from the Deep State.
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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.
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In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation would redirect capital toward productivity-enhancing spending – the key to long-term improvement in living standards.
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Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.
Marc Anthony
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Fox News and other Trump-friendly media long ago became fever wards of speculation and conspiracy-mongering as they obsessed over plots from the Deep State.
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Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
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The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
Roger Bacon
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When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.
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People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk.
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I have 100% confidence in Rob Pelinka running our basketball operations. I’ve always had confidence in Rob. Whatever the speculation is out there, we don’t need the outside media to validate what we do.
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Transfer speculation during the off-season does spur you on.
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There’s a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It’s not a long-term measure.
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The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode – an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background… For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.
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Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.
Michael Steinhardt
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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News reports following a natural disaster are almost always dominated by stories of looting and violence, but in many cases such stories turn out to be unfounded speculations based on rumour.
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I wanted to be an actress. I wanted to be known. Yes, it’s difficult sometimes. I believe that if you’re going to be in a profession like this, which is so open to criticism, to speculation, you need to have people around you who will believe in you and stand by you.
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We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.
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In terms of Rogers, I can’t comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that’s just speculation.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Anything that’s secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite.
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I’m not much into speculation.
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Kushner is the victim of exaggerated speculation supported by little evidence. Because of his affiliation with the Trump White House and the Trump family, he is subject to the perverse standard of guilty until proven innocent. It is a grotesque miscarriage of justice indeed.
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Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It’s tempting, of course.
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I wanted to be an actress. I wanted to be known. Yes, it’s difficult sometimes. I believe that if you’re going to be in a profession like this, which is so open to criticism, to speculation, you need to have people around you who will believe in you and stand by you.
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Obviously, you’re trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytelling. I’m trying to get back to the absolute basic story of who was Jesus, what did he say, what was he teaching, and what did he do.
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I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn’t belong to anybody but me.
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There’s been a lot of speculation about every single girl I’m with and it actually does quite irritate me after a while, more so because it’s a complete pain for the girls.
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Science fiction writers aren’t in the prediction business; they’re in the speculation business, using ‘hasn’t happened‘ or ‘hasn’t happened yet’ to create entertaining scenarios that may or may not anticipate future realities.
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You’re trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don’t know these people, you don’t know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.
Marc Racicot
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The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
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People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.
George Smoot
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To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.
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Not too many people in cocktail parties are aware of Bioprinting and growing organs, or the coming technological singularity; I’ve seen very little philosophical speculation about how far we can go, how much we could achieve.
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Gambling is entertainment… Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best and highest use.
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You’re trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don’t know these people, you don’t know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.
Marc Racicot
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‘Dept. of Speculation’ contains numerous enviable lines.
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Gout produces calculus in the kidney… the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
Thomas Sydenham
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Speculation replaces fact. It’s very easy to see news outlets running with information that is unconfirmed or erroneous.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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The top 10 is really a media thing anyway unless you’re the champion, but otherwise, it’s always speculation.
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Lovers may be – and indeed generally are – enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.
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Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.
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Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.
Marc Anthony
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You don’t need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation – meaning capital gains.
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We don’t know what is going to happen with Brexit, it’s not going to be good for the North anyway whatever happens. It’s not going to be good for Ireland whatever happens. And the problem is we don’t know what is going to happen so we can’t really prepare so everything is speculation.
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People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves against risk.
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There is speculation that I was arrested in Pakistan, but that’s not true.
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In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.
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For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster.
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I’m rereading Jenny Offill’s ‘Dept. of Speculation.’ I love it, and she‘s just a magician. Line by line and paragraph by paragraph, it’s mesmerizing and so intricately plotted and so nimble.
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To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.
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I have never indulged our society’s misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.
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No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years‘ time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party?
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One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.
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My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases – people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It’s strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don’t seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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One thing I would always say is speculation is always flattering because if someone is talking about you or linking you to a job then it’s something that is flattering.
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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.
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I have never invested directly in stocks and shares. That’s never been my type of speculation.
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There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein‘s classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
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The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts… How does the media do this? By quoting some ‘expert‘… you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
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Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.
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For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas.
George Smoot
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I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there’s so much speculation about her – was she a hermaphrodite? She’s so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.
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You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.
Eike Batista
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Once anthropology and geology had opened up the pre-recordkeeping darkness of humanity‘s long, slow, sustained infancy as suitable grounds for speculation, writers began trying to imagine human existence as it must have been with only stone-age technology.
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Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.
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You don’t need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation – meaning capital gains.
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I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.
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Bulls don’t read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.
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There’s always speculation around the best players.
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So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really an exploration of a more interesting and embarrassing question about ourselves.
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There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein‘s classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
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You can get on with your job. I’m going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that’s what they expect from me and I’m not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.
Peter Hain
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There is always speculation about me and Palmeiras, precisely because of the affection I have for the team and I have made it clear I identify with Palmeiras.
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Some of the early speculation I saw in the press was that I am a rail fan. I’m not. This is not a hobby. This is a full-time business, and a very serious one at that. We’re making this railroad work.
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I accept that speculation, cheerful or otherwise, about the private life is something public figures must expect, but I am lucky enough to continue to enjoy the love and support of Victoria and my children, Claudia and Freddy, and to finally be at ease with myself.
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No one but John Oliver is going to be able to figure out the code of making a 20-minute monologue on futures, securities, and currency speculation interesting, funny, and poignant politically.
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Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.