Probable Cause Quotes

• A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

  Potter Stewart

  Giving, Criminals, Doe

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• It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.

  Ron Livingston

  Thinking, Looks, Causes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Plot, Poet

  'Poetics' ch. 24, 1460a

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• Reality is not always probable, or likely.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Life, Reality, Fiction And Reality

  "Worldwide Laws of Life : 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, 1998.

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• Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

  Rene Descartes

  Philosophical, Probability, Ought

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• Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Simple, Difficult, Science And Religion

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• It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

  Tony Campolo

  Past, Hard

  "The Changing Politics of Evangelicals" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2007.

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• The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting in the first place, without any specific judicial showing that there's a probable cause for that infringement of our rights.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Firsts, Causes

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• Black men in ghetto communities (and many who live in middle class communities) are targeted by the police at early ages, often before they're old enough to vote. They're routinely stopped, frisked, and searched without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.

  Michelle Alexander

  Ghetto, Men, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the government operates largely in secret, while seeking to know everything about our private lives - without probable cause and without a warrant.

  Ron Paul

  Government, House, Secret

  "Ron Paul: We need to know more about what the government is doing". www.campaignforliberty.org. June 10, 2013.

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• I think we've made the collection haystack so big, no one's ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Nsa, People

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

  Arthur Bloch

  Work, Errors, Reliability

  Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

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• Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. All of those countries, in the wake of these surveillance revelations, rushed through laws that were basically ghostwritten by the National Security Agency to enable mass surveillance without court oversight, without all of the standard checks and balances that one would expect.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Agency, Law

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• It's OK if we wiretap Osama bin Laden. I want to know what he's planning - obviously not him nowadays, but that kind of thing. I don't care if it's a pope or a bin Laden. As long as investigators must go to a judge - an independent judge, a real judge, not a secret judge - and make a showing that there's probable cause to issue a warrant, then they can do that. And that's how it should be done.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Independent, Issues

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I was an ugly baby. On my birth certificate there was a listing for Probable Cause.

  Ronnie Shakes

  Baby, Ugly, Causes

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• First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the agent been identified, but a new process has been developed to mass produce this virus. Thirdly, with the discovery of both the virus and this new process, we now have a blood test for AIDS. With a blood test, we can identify AIDS victims with essentially 100% certainty.

  Margaret Heckler

  Cancer, Discovery, Blood

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• All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

  William James

  Science, Past, Taught Us

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.119, 谷月社

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• I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Phones, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Gratitude, Strong, Prayer

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• I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Saving, Way, Causes

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.47, Hachette UK

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