If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point …

Orson Scott Card
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If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in. ✨ The Call Of Earth. Book by Orson Scott Card, 1992.
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