Evidence Quotes - Page 33

• Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

  Adam Gopnik

  Thinking, Good Times, Sometimes

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Supporting local farmers is important to me, which is not only good for the local economy and better for the environment, there is evidence that eating locally grown food strengthens your immune system.

  Suzanne Whang

  Important, Environment, Eating

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• I think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would be immediately suspect and seen as evidence as a sort of resurgent militancy.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  Thinking, Political, Would Be

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Law, Remember, Accusation

  "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy". "See It Now" on CBS, www.lib.berkeley.edu. March 09, 1954.

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• The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

  Emily Post

  Imagine, Elegance, Slang

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Causes, Results

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories”, p.94, Zondervan

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• Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Long, Way, Logic

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• Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.

  Harold Jeffreys

  Taken, Variation, Contrary

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• There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.

  Prince Charles

  Land, Numbers, Years

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

  Upton Sinclair

  Real, Foolish, Refuse

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• The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and more evidence of evolution. Those who choose to believe that God created every biological species separately in the state we observe them, but made them in a way calculated to lead us to the conclusion that they are the products of an evolutionary development are obviously not open to argument. All that can be said is that their belief is an implicit blasphemy, for it imputes to God an appalling deviousness.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Believe, Development, Way

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• Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Worry, Finding Yourself, Hazards

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.40, Multnomah

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• After nearly 6,000 years of evidence on the subject, one thing stands clear: the people who end up as leaders in any organization, large or small, are often the craziest guys around.

  Stanley Bing

  Years, Organization, People

  Stanley Bing (2009). “Crazy Bosses: Fully Revised and Updated”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Art, Real, War

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• ...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.

  John Stott

  Mystical Experiences, People, Firsts

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

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• Optimism is evidence-based.

  Cornel West

  Optimism

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• We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

  Napoleon Hill

  Discovery, Ideas, Waiting

  Napoleon Hill (1960). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built”

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• I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Believe, Reality, Glimpse

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• If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Teaching, Mean

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.

  Robert Winston

  Challenges, Brain, Novelty

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• There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  Communication, Men, Mind

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• A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our comprehension.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Lying, Lost, Fragments

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• It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so that it really is a mashup. We want evidence of our presence in this world, so you'll see there's an interest in technology, that there are not complex electronics. There's electricity in this world, but computers, circuits don't work.

  Miles Millar

  Technology, Challenges, Asian

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Nice, Believe

  "Scientists divided over alliance with religion" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2007.

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• [...] evidence is now coming out showing that Egypt was colonized by Western people over 15,000 years ago.

  Michael Tsarion

  Egypt, Years, People

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