#evidence

We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new. ↗

— George Combe

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There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns reduce crime. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea. ↗

— Jon Stewart

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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ↗

— Ann Landers

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No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence. ↗

— Ann Landers

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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ↗

— Ann Landers

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People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right. ↗

— Michael Lewis

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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man. ↗

— Charles Lyell

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