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We don't have enough information, all of this is conjecture, honestly. – Lara Yeretsian	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We know as a fact, not conjecture but as a fact, that this virus spreads more efficiently from person to person. And it also leads to more severe disease, so it is not surprising that we're seeing more younger people not only getting infected but getting seriously ill. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If I were to take my experience and offer conjecture, it would be practical, i need Russia. – Susan Gordon	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's not conjecture, it's not some flimsy theory, this is what is going to happen. – Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think that the case against Sheila Kelly is extremely weak, it is purely speculation and conjecture at this point. – Matthew Tuohy	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Scientists conjecture there may be a genetic component to our degree and quality of response to music. Clearly there are no universal patterns, but music therapists can still experiment to find out what works or not with a given individual. – Panoyotis Mavromatis	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Other media outlets have insinuated that I influenced the decision by the U.S. to sign a free trade agreement with Colombia, at one point, I was an investor in Pacific Rubiales, a Colombian energy company. I sold my shares in Pacific Rubiales several years before the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which, I will note, was approved by several U.S. agencies and the White House. To theorize that I had anything to do with that is sheer conjecture. – Frank Giustra	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't think it's a great stretch, he was one of those guys with a very strong sense of justice and professional discipline and in light of what evolved and came to be disclosed -- I speak as a forensic pathologist who's done so many suicides over the years and what can bring someone to that point. It's pure conjecture, not based on any factual knowledge. – Cyril Wecht	Found on CNN 9 years ago
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. – Anatole France	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence." – J.W.N. Sullivan	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture. – Anatole France	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture. – Anatole France	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We don't have enough information, all of this is conjecture, honestly.

– Lara Yeretsian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We know as a fact, not conjecture but as a fact, that this virus spreads more efficiently from person to person. And it also leads to more severe disease, so it is not surprising that we're seeing more younger people not only getting infected but getting seriously ill.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If I were to take my experience and offer conjecture, it would be practical, i need Russia.

– Susan Gordon

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's not conjecture, it's not some flimsy theory, this is what is going to happen.

– Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think that the case against Sheila Kelly is extremely weak, it is purely speculation and conjecture at this point.

– Matthew Tuohy

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Scientists conjecture there may be a genetic component to our degree and quality of response to music. Clearly there are no universal patterns, but music therapists can still experiment to find out what works or not with a given individual.

– Panoyotis Mavromatis

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Other media outlets have insinuated that I influenced the decision by the U.S. to sign a free trade agreement with Colombia, at one point, I was an investor in Pacific Rubiales, a Colombian energy company. I sold my shares in Pacific Rubiales several years before the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which, I will note, was approved by several U.S. agencies and the White House. To theorize that I had anything to do with that is sheer conjecture.

– Frank Giustra

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I don't think it's a great stretch, he was one of those guys with a very strong sense of justice and professional discipline and in light of what evolved and came to be disclosed -- I speak as a forensic pathologist who's done so many suicides over the years and what can bring someone to that point. It's pure conjecture, not based on any factual knowledge.

– Cyril Wecht

Found on CNN
9 years ago

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

– Anatole France

added by anonymous
13 years ago

For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence."

– J.W.N. Sullivan

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

– Mark Twain

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjecture.

– Anatole France

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

– Anatole France

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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