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“Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.”

“There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.”

“We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works.”

Should Wells Hands Would Be Spirit Cases Prove Authority Direct Method Possession Peculiar Good Work Antiquity Invoke Redeeming Concise

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.”

Men Form Culture Belief Issues Century Higher Prove Equal Opposites Prejudice Method Guilty France Realms Statistics Ads Measurement Indiana

Author:Richard M. Weaver

“Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.”

Enough Easy Rooms Taken Prove Method Hotel Hospitality Hotel Rooms Picture Taken

Author:Gabriel Lippmann

“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.”

People Death Dying Prove Method Mortals Fear Of Death Demise

Book:Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89

Source: Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89

“Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.”

Mind Facts Accepting Prove Method Open Mind Prove It Claire Close Minded

Book:Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires

“God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.”

Ifs Men Believe Humans Doe God Science Belief Human Beings Divine He Man Needed Prove Method Pity Scientific Method

Author:J. G. Holland

“There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.”

People Want Humans Kind Two Reason Use Action Activity Prove Method Human Activity

Book:The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895~1899 (Abridged)

Source: The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895~1899 (Abridged)

“I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.”

Ifs Thinking Way Littles Able Song Lines Prove Findings Method Make Sense Titles Songwriting

Author:Merle Haggard

“Q: Prove God doesn’t exist. A: That’s a tough one. Show me how it’s done by proving Zeus and Apollo don’t exist, and I’ll use your method.”

Done Use Shows Prove Tough Method Show Me Apollo Zeus

Author:Pat Condell