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• It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Law, Body

  Alfred C. Kinsey (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”, p.4, Indiana University Press

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• Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.

  Charlotte Mason

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Towards a Psychology of Education”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

  Antonio Damasio

  Pain, Compassion, Brain

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• Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

  Lynn Margulis

  Powerful, Unique, Understanding

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• Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.

  Alex Berenson

  Dollars, Answers, Lavish Lifestyle

  "Ideas & Trends: Overcompensating; In Fraud Cases, Guilt Can Be Skin Deep" by Alex Berenson, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Views, Periods

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• I dont see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

  Joel C. Rosenberg

  Moral, Economic

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• Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Fighting, Blow, Feet

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• The investigators are gathering evidence all the time and they've put together a package of evidence.

  Doug Graham

  Together, Gathering, Packages

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• Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

  Alan Lowenthal

  Temperature, Climate, Deny

  "Climate Change: Case Closed" by Rep. Alan Lowenthal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

  Emily Oster

  Doulas, Helping, Planning

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• The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Jesus, Lying, Rose

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1921). “The Ineffable Glory: Thoughts on the Resurrection”

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• I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.

  Bernard Beckett

  World, Belief, Ability

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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

  Years, Lightning, May

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• A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Grateful, Heart, Spirit

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• No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Law, Matter, Culture

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• We falsely interpret the world around us. We ignore evidence that doesn't support our prior beliefs and we convince ourselves we know things we don. We think we know things we don't know.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Support, World

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• Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

  Frederick Seitz

  Data, Climate, Use

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• Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Book, Loss, Light

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• The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.

  Dan Harmon

  Dream, Real, Teeth

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• What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.

  Barry Lyga

  Opposites, Kind, Certain

  Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.56, Random House

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• I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

  Lynn Margulis

  Mutation, Taught, Accumulation

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• The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Loyalty, Country, Past

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• Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

  John Flavel

  Titles, Birth, Resurrection

  John Flavel (1836). “The Fountain of Life Opened; Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory. 1671”, p.405

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• i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.

  Ayn Rand

  If There Is A God, Negative, Given

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