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“He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.”

Mean Suffering Dies Produce Fool Prove Evidence Mere Doctrine Absurd Martyr Martyrdom Knaves

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.”

People Desire Produce Evidence Sole Desirable

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.”

Dream Produce Creatures Evidence

Book:The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

“Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings... Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose performances they may be found, have indeed had frequent reason to repent their curiosity.”

Writing Mind Humans May Reason Suffering Found Virtue Produce Genius Evidence Performances Curiosity Appearance Folly Human Mind Manifest Tempted Repent Infirmity Inconsistency

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to Agnosticism. That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions.”

Source: Lectures and Essays

“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.”

Artist Fall Actors Hours Memories Silence Darkness Stage Produce Divine Poet Musician Evidence Theater Missions Painter Curtains Sculptors

Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena [sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.”

Reality Science Principles Produce Evidence Aspect Tests Strongest Realism Entity Hypothesis Ontology

Author:Ian Hacking

“Thought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to the endorphins and produce an impulse to hold that whole pattern forther. In other words, it produces a defensive reflex. Not merely is it stuck because it's chemically so well built up, but also there is a defensive reflex which defends against evidence which might weaken it. Thus it all happens, one reflex after another after another. It's just a vast system of reflexes. And they form a 'structure' as they get more rigid.”

Wells May Hard Whole Might Happens Form Produce Evidence Built Structure Patterns Stuck Impulse Very Strong Interfere Reflexes Endorphins

Author:David Bohm

“It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.”

Men Enough Political Animal Produce Serious Evidence Constitution Sensible Efficient Doubtful Political Animals

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good”

Mean Littles Use Pain Produce Evidence Occupation Negligence

Book:Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's

Source: Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's

“Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.”

May Produce Television Evidence Interviews Mike

Author:Errol Morris

“Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.”

People Ifs Able Law Produce Goodness Evidence Capacity Court Incredibles Sake Denied Scrutiny

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?”

Ifs World Littles Said War Facts Problem Lasts Produce Evidence Trade Nine Guilty Documents Seventies Convincing Paragraph Blair World Trade World Trade Center Well Said Going To War

Author:Robert Fisk

“The people that can't win elections, outside of Barack Obama, the people on the Democrat side who cannot win elections, who do not have the votes to stop Donald Trump at all in a constitutional sense, have to now behave outside the Constitution in order to stop the duly elected president of the United States about whom they can produce no evidence that his election was fraudulent.”

People States Order Winning Sides President United United States Produce Trump Evidence Vote Constitution Election Democrat Barack Behave Can't Win

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“[Donald Trump] said, "Maybe the Russians could find those [Hillary Clinton's] emails - and if the Russians find 'em, please give them to the media." Well, I don't know how you get there from here, but the media then reported that Trump was encouraging the Russians to hack the Hillary campaign and produce the evidence to the media.”

Ifs Knows Giving Wells Said Know How Media Produce Trump Please Evidence Clinton Campaigns Ems Email Hacks

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.”

Giving Should May Said Character Sound Moral Heard Produce Evidence Tables Winter Statements Evening Occasions Clock Fallen Strict Choke Lofty Dutch Moral Character

Book:Hard Times

Source: Hard Times

“It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.”

Men Certain Produce Evidence Objectives Certainty Justify Propositions Objective Truth

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.”

Mind Believe Doe Facts Causes Attitude Produce Ought Evidence Prejudice Favors Suits Propositions Hostility

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.”

Mind Eye Jesus Speak Worst Produce Evidence Finals Sake Accepted His Eyes Justified Sanctification Depravity Verdict

Author:J. I. Packer

“While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether the disease can be transmitted by any other agency must be decided by future investigations. Meanwhile the evidence accumulated thus far seems to favor very strongly the dictum: No ticks, no Texas fever.”

Mean Made Seems Able Science Nature Decision Clear Produce Disease Evidence Decided Favors Agency Texas Very Strong Investigation Fever Tick

Author:Theobald Smith

“There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens”

Art Growing Students Produce Citizens Evidence Art Education Student Learning

Author:David J. Skorton