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"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
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"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
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"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it." »Mark Twain
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"A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another, completely immune to any direct magical spell. It is for this group of beings that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells. It also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club near your person at all times." »The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII
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"Growth is the only evidence of life." »John Henry Newman
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"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried" »Unknown
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"Laughter is the first evidence of freedom." »Rosario Castellanos
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"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." »Bertrand Russell
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"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." »Ann Landers
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"Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition." »Alexander Hodge
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"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." »Jerry Seinfeld
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"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious." »Unknown
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"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." »Thomas Huxley
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"One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence." »Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)
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"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact." »George Eliot
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"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." »Brendan Gill
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"Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case." »Elisha Potter
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"Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence." »Ann Landers
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"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." »George Eliot
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"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
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"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." »Henry David Thoreau
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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment." »Conan Doyle
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"It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored." »Terry Pratchett, Jingo
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." »Utterly Russell
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"Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." »Ambrose Bierce
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"Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet." »Michael Brian Schiffer
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"Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing." »Charles Krauthammer
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