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“I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.”

Trying Shows Journey Battle Evidence Mark Favors Destination Finishing

Book:Charles Sheeler: across media

Source: Charles Sheeler: across media

“The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.”

Wealth Evidence Mark Possession Absence Favors Heavenly

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.”

Ifs Giving Doe Real Character Would Be Quality Opinion Evidence Mark Errors Queens Fancy Falsehood Deceiving Infallible Deceitful

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.”

Way Science Found Stars Objects Evidence Mark Photograph Clouds Pockets Plates Wipe Identifying Wilson Astronomers Domes Milky Way Handkerchiefs Andromeda Nebula

Author:Halton Arp

“Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.”

Social Wealth Evidence Standing Labor Mark Conventional Abstention

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text.”

People Thinking Way Mind Real Self Use Culture Ability Evidence Mark Notes Species Oneself Nostalgia Deception Motive Constructs Narrators Semblance

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.”

Age Voice Ability Race Quality Leader Four Integrity Evidence Capacity Mark Gender Great Leader Distinctive Ethnicity Exemplary Adaptive

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane.”

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.”