Evidence Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.

  James Randi

  Dating, Claims, Paranormal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Animal, Mammals

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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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• 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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• 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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• I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

  Leo Kottke

  Jobs, Usual, Records

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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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• 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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• 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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• The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Data, Scientific Method, Way

  "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin can help cure aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

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• While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.

  China Mieville

  Recovery, Yes We Can, Smell

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• The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.

  Russell Kirk

  Law, Land, Age

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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• When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up on the same shelf with my reason. Your stuff has to go over there, on the shelf with Zeus and Thor and the Kraken, with the stuff that is not evidence-based, stuff that religious people never change their mind about, no matter what happens.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Kraken, Two Sides

  "Real Time With Bill Maher", February 03, 2012.

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