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“[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.”

Years Facts Political Culture Given Ability Republican Evidence Structure Decay Moderates Romney Massachusetts Ability To Change

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted.”

Given Issues Policy Integrity Evidence Climate Climate Change Opponents Trusted Credible Dismayed

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.”

“The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.”

Knows Self Given Acceptance Humility Duty Evidence Delight Denial Beloved Proportion Repentance Our Love Self-denial

Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.”

Thinking World Needs Mind Persons Ideas Shows Running School Young Opportunity Given Planets Demand Authority Evidence Sacred Train Rational Brethren Young Minds

Author:Jack McDevitt

“Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.”

May Has Beens Said Seems Age Form Found Individual Given Religious Numbers Expression Industry Periods Evidence Concern Being True Substitutes Factories Gothic Cathedrals

Book:Charles Sheeler: across media

Source: Charles Sheeler: across media

“May I say to mothers collectively, in the name of the Lord, you are magnificent. You are doing terrifically well. The very fact that you have been given such a responsibility is everlasting evidence of the trust your Father in Heaven has in you.”

Wells May Has Beens Facts Mother Father Names Given Heaven Responsibility Lord Evidence Magnificent Everlasting Father In Heaven

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.”

Kind Seems Faces Lost Given Cities Groups Members Evidence Contrary Minorities Urban Tribes Handful Appointments Sanctity Prompts Punctuality Timer Minority Groups

Book:Close to Home

Source: Close to Home

“Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that... is just having fun.”

Ifs Kind Stills Order Winning Belief Given Fun Evidence Argument Atheist Absence Having Fun Propositions Unreasonable Just Have Fun

Author:Scott Clifton

“You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.”

Giving Has Beens Done Might Given Birth Offers Evidence Oneself Exhibits

Book:Norma Jean, the termite queen

Source: Norma Jean, the termite queen

“Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert that religious faith necessarily upholds democratic values.”

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Book:Religion and Politics in the United States

Source: Religion and Politics in the United States

“Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line. ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave -- you may be given the opportunity.”

Knows Believe May Opportunity Given Lines Know How Evidence Raises Assuming Bottom Don't Believe Budgets Boss Bottom Line Files Collecting No Money Negotiating

Author:Pat Heim

“i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Given Fine Prove Evidence Negative Prove It If There Is A God

Author:Ayn Rand