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“GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels.”

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.”

“If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.”

“Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.”

Left Behinds Scene Evidence Shooting Shells Bullets Left Behind

Author:Grace Meng

“Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.”

Left Taken Morality Evidence Posts Miscellaneous Wrongdoing Watergate

Book:Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties

Source: Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties

“But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors.”

“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.”

“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.”

Ideas School Humanity Left Behinds Generations Style Conversation Evidence Settling Interpretation Absurdity Distrust Left Behind Disabled Disrespect Postmodernism Muster

Author:Daniel Dennett

“The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.”

Looks Left Century Painting Evidence Painter Crafts

Author:Balthus

“Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.”

Left Evidence Absence Butterfly Now And Then Tangible Stunning Reeds Whistling Blueberries

Book:Sula

Source: Sula

“Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.”

Dream Father House Left Interest Rooms Cities Team Love You Football Evidence Army Metaphor Definitions Desert Triumph Opposition Thrive Prize Celestial Football Team American Gods

Author:Neil Gaiman

“You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!”

Thinking Bigs Left Evidence Pointing Arrows Cabinets Filing Coyotes Filing Cabinet Wile E Coyote

Book:Prey

Source: Prey

“Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that - was it really so much better to be unmolested, but still murdered in a horrible fashion? To die in pain and terror, stripped, left in a field, your fingers cut off? But as long as you weren't raped, well, that was alright, then? Did it really matter at that point?”

Wells Long Said Stills Matter Pain Dies Left Cutting Fashion Fields Activity Evidence Jazz Fingers Terror Horrible Reports Alright Relieved

Author:Barry Lyga

“Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.”

Science Religion Universe Left Knowledge Magic Subjects Evidence Discovery Aspect Careful Available Improvement Defined Logical Examination Corrections Search For Knowledge

Book:The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer

Source: The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer

“If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). Trying to find some sense and order in this mess may be as futile as trying to ... reconstruct the economy of Iowa from a bowl of popcorn. [On searching for evidence of the Big Bang.]”

Ifs Trying Wells May Stills Enough Whole Facts Bigs Might Faces Science Order Universe Left Deals Economy Evidence Hot Be Good Bunch Mess Bowls Bangs Left Out Iowa Popcorn Tanning

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination with reality; he will look with contempt on his own unimportance, and wonder to what purpose he came into the world; he will repine that he shall leave behind him no evidence of his having been, that he has added nothing to the system of life, but has glided from youth to age among the crowd, without any effort for distinction.”

World Feels Looks Done Reality Age Purpose Humanity Left Imagination Effort Behinds Wonder Effects Youth Evidence Crowds Compare Distinction Comparison Contempt Undone

Book:Works

Source: Works

“[Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left.”

Long Law Religion Lost Left Loses Support Pieces Atheism Evolution Evidence Court Halls Long Ago Offense

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion of the universe and giving birth to all the energy and all the matter we know today. I know that sounds crazy, but there’s strong observational evidence to support the Big Bang theory. And it includes the amount of helium in the cosmos and the glow of radio waves left over from the explosion.”

“The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private

“What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion." That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh.”

Years Self Political Left Sound Violence Drug Prove Evidence Bills Wings Currents Obsession Despite Curious Thrown Agnostic Right Wing Extremist Michigan Militia Frantic Drug Taking

Author:Ann Coulter