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“If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?”

People Ifs Giving Littles Made Common Mistake Doubt Honest Return Taxes Benefits Assuming Complexes Common Sense Code Benefit Of The Doubt Tax Returns

Book:Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

Source: Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

“Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.”

Ifs Common Study Doubt Records Evolution Evidence Proof Strongest Ancestor Dna Fossils Living Things Descent Lingering Dna Evidence

Author:Francis Collins

“I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.”

Ifs Has Beens Would Be Suffering Common Doubt Fate Easier Succeed Misery Unhappiness Hysterical

Author:Sigmund Freud

“There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam.”

Believe Views Common Doubt Members Islam Als Extremist Common Denominator

Author:Rashid al-Ghannushi

“The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance. If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him. Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.”

Ifs Should Matter Body Common Taken Doubt Glasses Surface Resistance Former Substance Ease Shock Convince Latter Metals Electricity Particles Jars Electrical

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or excessive scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are corrected by common sense and reflection.”

May Philosophy Results Common Doubt Reflection Common Sense Skepticism Scepticism

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.”

Firsts Views Common Cases Doubt Honest Duty Messages Ordinary Observation Dishonesty Deliberation Balaam

Book:The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...

Source: The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...

“Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst -- assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values.”

People Giving Has Beens Values Strong Given Common Doubt Share Worst Benefits Assuming Partners Consistently Benefit Of The Doubt Your Strong

Author:Barack Obama

“We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be explained by common sense. The primitive man confronted by a shock of this kind would not doubt his sanity; he would think of fetishes, spirits or gods”

Thinking Men World Kind Spirit Common Doubt Imagine Happenings Common Sense Rational Shock Our World Sanity Primitive Accustomed Fetish Primitive Man

Author:Carl Jung

“both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold”

Common Doubt Cold Certainty Contagious Doubt And Certainty Common Cold

Author:Kathryn Schulz

“We judge people by their appearance so quickly, and we form opinions about people, compartmentalize people, and think we know who they are. But if you sit down and talk with someone for more than 10 minutes, you'll find something in common, no doubt whatsoever.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Form Common Opinion Doubt Minutes Judging Down And Appearance No Doubt

Author:Paul Blackthorne

“In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it.”

People World Country Moments Father Nations Common Cities Virtue Doubt Danger Revolution Depth Winter Outcomes Future World

Author:Barack Obama