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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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• The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.

  Wally Lamb

  Evidence Of God, God Exists

  Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.897, Cambridge University Press

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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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• No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Reason, Democratic

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.353, Vintage

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• You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

  Bruce Sterling

  Cutting, Data, Starting Over

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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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• Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

  Carl Sagan

  Observation, Extraordinary, Believable

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• If Christians continue to rely on emotion and ignore evidence, they will continue to lose their children to secularism. As Ravi Zacharias points out, a tepid Christianity cannot withstand a rabid secularism. And make no mistake-secularism is rabid. The world isn't neutral out there. Today's culture is becoming increasingly anti-Christian.

  Frank Turek

  Christian, Children, Mistake

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• Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Jesus, Teaching, Character

  Arthur Tappan Pierson (1886). “Many Infallible Proofs: A Series of Chapters on the Evidences of Christianity, Or, The Written and Living Word of God”

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• There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Math, Ideas

  "A life in music: Wynton Marsalis". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.

  Mark Buchanan

  Lying, Doubt, Answers

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• The final and conclusive evidence against evolution is the fact that the Bible denies it.

  Henry M. Morris

  Finals, Facts, Evolution

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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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• The plural on anecdote is not evidence

  Michael Mauboussin

  Anecdotes

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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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• So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Kindness, Humility, Play

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A person who rejects Christ may choose to say that I do not accept it, he may not choose to say there is not enough evidence.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Religious, Jesus, Acceptance

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• The best definition I can find of faith is the dependence upon the veracity of another. The Bible definition in the 11th chapter of Hebrews is, 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' In other words, faith says amen to everything that God says. Faith takes God without any ifs, If God says it, Faith says I believe it; Faith says amen to it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Believe, Substance, Definitions

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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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