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• This is not a dictatorship, this is based upon scientific evidence to support a given project. If you want to put up a building, say half a mile high, the material has to be available. Using statistics is not a dictatorship. It's a method of getting the most from existing resources.

  Jacque Fresco

  Support, Half, Want

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• I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Commitment, Roles, May

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• We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

  Napoleon Hill

  Discovery, Ideas, Waiting

  Napoleon Hill (1960). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built”

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• ...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.

  John Stott

  Mystical Experiences, People, Firsts

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

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• According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been saved by God's grace alone, for His glory alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

  Mark Dever

  People, Giving, Grace

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• Optimism is evidence-based.

  Cornel West

  Optimism

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• There is abundant evidence that the Bible, though written by men, is not the product of the human mind. By countless multitudes it has always been revered as a communication to us from the Creator of the Universe.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  Communication, Men, Mind

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• To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.

  Robert Winston

  Challenges, Brain, Novelty

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• Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We're a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.

  Bill Nye

  Dog, People, Common Sense

  "Commencement Speech: Bill Nye the Science Guy". my.umbc.edu. May 20, 2015.

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• Religion is unusual among divisive labels in being spectacularly unnecessary. If religious beliefs had any evidence going for them, we might have to respect them in spite of their concomitant unpleasantness. But there is no such evidence. To label people as death-deserving enemies because of disagreements about real world politics is bad enough. To do the same for disagreements about a delusional world inhabited by archangels, demons and imaginary friends is ludicrously tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Real, People

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• If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Teaching, Mean

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.

  Amanda Marcotte

  People, Perfect, Tools

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• Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts.

  Bernie Sanders

  Doubt, Climate, Faces

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• The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

  Bertrand Russell

  Newspapers, Said, Conclusion

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth”, p.79, Routledge

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• No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

  James Randi

  May, Matter, Belief

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• In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

  Gore Vidal

  Matter, Contradiction, Unnoticed

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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• A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Mean, Reality, Imagination

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• All the evidence we need that God is angry with us is Justin Timberlake's career.

  Greg Giraldo

  Careers, Needs, Justin

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• Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.

  M. R. James

  Believe, Ghost, Accepting

  M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.15, Oxford Paperbacks

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• America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.

  Paul Krugman

  Ideas, America, Keys

  "Life, Death and Deficits" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I have a counter-theory...I believe men built most things because women were shut out of political power, job opportunities, and education for most of history, and instead forced into servitude towards men in the home. I believe my theory has a lot of evidence for it, in the form of all of history.

  Amanda Marcotte

  Jobs, Believe, Home

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• It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or spiritual strength to believe that for which one has no evidence, neither a priori evidence as in math, nor a posteriori evidence as in science. . . . It's a violation almost immoral in its transgressiveness to shirk the responsibilities of rationality.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Believe

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• Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.

  Tim Minchin

  Believe, Source, Rejects

  "Tim Minchin: Mocking God in the heart of Texas" by Tim Minchin, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.

  Marcel Proust

  Beautiful, Judging, Different

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.260, Modern Library

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