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• Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope towards the future, in particular, the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Similarly, faith rests of the past; love works in the present; hope looks to the future. Every Christian without exception is a believer, a lover and a hoper. Faith, hope and love are three sure evidences of regeneration by the Holy Spirit.

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Past

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Thessalonians”, p.18, SPCK

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• Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

  David Milne

  Certainty, Deals, Uncertainty

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• There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suffering, May, Causes

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.177, Routledge

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• Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, States, Obvious

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.154, Routledge

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• There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.

  Alan Greenspan

  Has Beens, Cycles

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• I grew tired of religion some time not long after birth. I believe in people, I believe in humans, I believe in a car, but I don't believe something I can't have absolutely no evidence of for millenniums. And it's funny, people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and they go to church.

  John Malkovich

  Believe, Tired, Thinking

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• The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Resistance, Charm, Obvious

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• Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.

  Ralph Borsodi

  Mother, Mistake, Men

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• Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

  Tracey Gold

  Teaching, Medicine, People

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• The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations.

  G. H. Hardy

  Years, Numbers, Branches

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• Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

  Alan Greenspan

  Gold, Dollars, Remember

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• Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.

  Daniel Dennett

  School, Ideas, Disrespect

  "Liberals and the New McCarthyism" by Derrick Jensen, www.counterpunch.org. August 10, 2015.

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• There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized.

  James Randi

  Strong, Philosophy, Class

  James Randi (1993). “The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer”

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• Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Facts, Action

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

  Douglas Adams

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. November 8, 2000.

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• Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Grace, Lines, Boundaries

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869). “Oldtown Folks”, p.240

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• The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.

  Willie Soon

  Hallmark, Hypothesis, Rejected

  "It's the Sun, stupid!: New direct evidence demonstrate that changes in solar activity influence climate". Essay by Willie Soon, March 9, 2009.

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• 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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• There's evidence that one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe posing as a refugee.

  Audie Cornish

  Europe, Paris, May

  "Paris Attacks Put Pressure On Germany To Tighten Its Refugee Policy". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. November 16, 2015.

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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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• 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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• Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

  Desmond Tutu

  Law, People, Able

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• If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Hands, Wish

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.101, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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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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