#evidence

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly. ↗

— John Fund

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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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The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#around #assassination #close #country #dr

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. ↗

— John Lubbock

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