| "There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule." »Samuel Butler |
| "It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence." »Matthew Arnold |
| "If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." »Edward Abbey |
| "To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart -- about a finger's breadth -- for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule." »Marnie Reed Crowell |
| "Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions." »Holly Lisle |
| "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried" »Unknown |
| "Growth is the only evidence of life." »John Henry Newman |
| "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." »Bertrand Russell |
| "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." »Jerry Seinfeld |
| "Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition." »Alexander Hodge |
| "Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case." »Elisha Potter |
| "Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." »Ann Landers |
| "No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence." »Ann Landers |
| "All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." »Brendan Gill |
| "It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment." »Conan Doyle |
| "The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." »Thomas Huxley |
| "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." »Utterly Russell |
| "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." »George Eliot |
| "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing." »Charles Krauthammer |
| "Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet." »Michael Brian Schiffer |
| "Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods." »Seneca |
| "Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either." »Gore Vidal |
| "A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting." »Gladys Taber |
| "They should rule who are able to rule best." »Aristotle |
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