#evidence

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#allure #america #ample #anecdotal #around

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#assembly #been #brought #established #even

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

— Garrett Hardin

#course #evidence #growth #growth rate #might

After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#after #american #american history #anthrax #anything

People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me. ↗

— John Higgins

#been #evidence #i #innocent #jail

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

#agent #alter #aspects #cases #evidence

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#evidence #example #find #milk #occasionally

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

#destruction #evidence #gun #invading #iraq

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government. ↗

— Ken Starr

#duty #evidence #government #lawyers #wrongdoing

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#aggression #anecdotal #brave #broad #brutal