Evidence Quotes - Page 6

• Every friend of freedom... must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

  Milton Friedman

  Army, Jail, Alcohol

  "An Open Letter to Bill Bennett". Milton Friedman, The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989.

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• In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

  Ira Glass

  People, Half, Way

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

  Allen Tate

  Real, May, Critics

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Success, Clever

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• Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary.....The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Military, Real, Facts

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• Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

  Charles Lyell

  Men, Discovery, Caves

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.49, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have.

  George Galloway

  Oil, Pennies, Deals

  "2,000 oil-for-food firms 'involved in bribery'" by Mark Oliver, Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2005.

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• Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

  Michael Shermer

  Faith, Religious, Emotional

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• The evidence of Jesus Christ is lives changed.

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Life Changing, Christ

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• In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

  Tucker Carlson

  Age, Superstitions, Absence

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• Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

  Michael Baden

  Hair, Years, Tape

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• There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Alzheimer's, Keys

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Apr 29, 2016

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• The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Common Sense, Political

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995”, Government Printing Office

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• The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Raises Questions, Want, Process

  U.S. News & World Report, August 9, 1982.

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• No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

  Ann Landers

  Humanity, Belief, Empirical Evidence

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• In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

  Donella Meadows

  Permit, Release, Court

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• The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Laughter, Humorous

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 4 (1916)

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• The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Confidence, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1912*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

  Sarah Zettel

  Life, Stories, Invasion

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• A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Book, Reading, Learning

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• The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

  Katherine Dunn

  Men, Female, Growing

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

  Albert Ellis

  Sex, Men, Irrational

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• Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

  Ernst Mayr

  Reconstruction, Acceleration, Species

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  Garrett Hardin

  Taken, Growth, Population

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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• There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.

  Robert Torricelli

  Stuff, Testimony, Committees

  " Torricelli sees vindication in ethics case" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2002.

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