Quotes About Conclusion

The art of the pitch was to keep it clear, quick, with a good sense of suspense toward a climax, leading to a single conclusion. It had to be a story, in other words.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.'

Case closed, game over, zip up your fly.

Case fuckin closed.

Philosophers have debated the meaning of life for centuries, rarely coming to the same conclusion.

An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.

And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.

That passage makes, clearly and for the first time, the crucial distinction between rejecting an argument for a conclusion and rejecting the conclusion itself. The art of criticism cannot thrive unless that distinction is grasped. (pp51)

Louis Pasteur once noted, "The microbes always have the last word.

What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form?

choice.—The question is, What influences, directs, or determines the mind or Will to come to such a conclusion or choice as it does?

But decades of research on public opinion have led to the conclusion that self-interest is a weak predictor of policy preferences.

Reasoning can take us to almost any conclusion we want to reach, because we ask "Can I believe it?" when we want to believe something, but "Must I believe it?" when we don't want to believe. The answer is almost always yes to the first question and no to the second. In moral and political matters we are often groupish, rather than selfish. We deploy our reasoning skills to support our team, and to demonstrate commitment to our team.

Our conclusion from this study is that diversity is like cholesterol: There's a good kind and a bad kind, and perhaps we should not be trying to maximize both.

There was a terminal narrative. It was a story until it stopped being a story and until then they kept wanting to know. Give up... Surrender your need for the detail; there is only one way this is going to end.

All is well that ends well

Let people know that you will always believe in the happy ending to the story--because the story doesn't end here. Some happy endings will never be read in this life. But the atonement of Jesus Christ promises us that our stories will all have successful conclusions one day, if we put our trust in him.

To the animist, a state of permanent enlightenment is not considered natural. His senses inform him that, firstly, life is sustained by a balance of light and darkness, and, secondly, it is lived for the most part in neither darkness nor light, but in varying degrees of twilight and shadow, of half knowing, believing, assuming and concluding

El ensayo es un teatro de la inteligencia donde una mente organizada y lúcida utiliza recursos pedagógicos para hacer reflexionar al lector común y llevarlo de la mano hasta una conclusión que perdería poder persuasivo si fuera presentada de manera abrupta.

Author's Afterword

The only result of a horse race which historians can tell us with absolute confidence is one that has already been run.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

I have never regarded any theater as much more than the conclusion to a dinner or the prelude to a supper.