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• I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

  Richard Cobden

  Office, India, Employment

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.388

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• Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Lying, Book, Thinking

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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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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• 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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• The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sarcastic, Character, Men

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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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• 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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• But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Organization, Ties, Sept 11

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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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• If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Enough, Should

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• Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Taken, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

  Mark Haddon

  Clever, Work Out, Something New

  "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time". Book by Mark Haddon, May, 2003.

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• Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Praying To God

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character”, p.76, Discovery House

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• The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Men, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.390, Cambridge University Press

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• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Good And Evil, Sufficient

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• Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Strong, War, Mind

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• Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead, like poverty, crime, and homelessness, child abuse came to be viewed as evidence of a societal failure.

  Mona Charen

  Children, Character, Parent

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Understanding, Religion, Atheism

  "Is There Evidence for God?". The Craig-Krauss Debate, www.reasonablefaith.org. March 2011.

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• There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

  Gary Bauer

  Men, Views, Hatred

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• I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.

  Irving Stone

  Motivation, Writing, Heart

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• This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

  Mark Bittman

  Stuff, Plant, Overwhelming

  "How Has The American Diet Changed Over Time?". "TED Radio Hour" wuth Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 17, 2016.

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• Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

  Andy Stanley

  Mean, Asking

  Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.134, Thomas Nelson

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• There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

  Amartya Sen

  Children, Literacy, Mortality

  Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.195, Anchor

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• I think that any time you are making a film you have to realize that the people you are talking with might be giving you misinformation. Sometimes it is factually incorrect and for that, it's important to me to check it out and not let things find their way into the film without being challenged, either by me, or by another character, or by evidence that you might see on screen.

  Marshall Curry

  Character, Thinking, People

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• It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder, far less affectionate woman than the Diana he had known or had thought he knew - a mythical person, no doubt created by himself. It had of course been evident from her letter, which made no reference to his; but he had not chosen to see the evidence and now it was absolutely forced upon his sight it made his eyes sting and tingle again. And deprived of his myth he felt extraordinarily lonely.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lonely, Eye, Sight

  Patrick O'Brian (2011). “The Reverse of the Medal (Vol. Book 11) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.168, W. W. Norton & Company

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