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“Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade their personal lives, with no oversight or accountability. Law-abiding Americans also deserve to know that when law enforcement can show an impartial judge clear evidence of criminal activity or a threat to national security, swift and decisive action will be taken to protect the public. That is the balance we must achieve.”

“The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.”

People Care Interest Sin Secret Virtue Taken Evidence Inspired Vices Gossip Consolation Neighbour Malice Untrue Verify

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.”

Ideas Sometimes Christian Causes Differences Religious Christianity Taken Theory Evidence Historical Islam Dues Locals Islamic Interpretation Scholar Sufi Resemblance Esoteric

Book:The Elephant in the Dark

Source: The Elephant in the Dark

“Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.”

Should Real Actors Lord Taken Air Evidence Dignity Veils Imposing Imposition Real Truth

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.”

Men Giving May Easy Principles Practice Taken Evidence All Things Possession Daily Life Sincerity

Book:Among My Books: Six Essays

Source: Among My Books: Six Essays

“Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they are scrutinized for evidence that they lack masculine (instrumental) characteristics as well as for signs that they no longer possess female (expressive) ones. They are taken to fail, in other words, both as a male and as a female.”

Trying Wells Taken Failing Evidence Female Males Characteristics Sexism Norm Masculine Competence Appearing Expressive

Book:Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership

Source: Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership

“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

“Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.”

Might Courses Growth Taken Evidence Rate Population Optimum

Book:Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle

Source: Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle

“Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.”

“Our mother was killed for something she did not do. She was taken away from us. That's as personal as it can get. But, the fact that the government facilitated the invention of evidence in order to convict someone of a capital crime, that is something that should concern everybody.”

Mother Taken Crime Evidence Concern Invention

Author:Robert Meeropol

“I thought Mike Pence, upon reflection to me, came across a little bit like your favorite aunt who refuses, in spite of first-person evidence that grandpa has been drunk and disorderly in public, that, says, no, no, grandpa would never do that, even though grandpa is being taken off in handcuffs.”

Taken Like You Reflection Evidence Drunk Spite Aunt Grandpa Your Favorite

Author:Mark Shields

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”

Men Doe Wisdom Religion Taken Evidence Christian Inspirational Provocation Ill Tempered

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence.”

Humans Matter Facts Age Human Beings Accepting Opinion Taken Human Nature Taste Evidence Old Age Abortion Conception Metaphysical Fertilization

Author:Jerome Lejeune

“The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has.”

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Book:Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective

Source: Asimov on science: a 30-year retrospective

“With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.”

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.”

Ifs Men Way Doe Shows Taken Inspirational Life Evidence Ill Hiding Show Me Rats Cellars Provocation Ill Tempered

Author:C. S. Lewis

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