#statements

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#evidence #false #fiction #find #historians

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment. ↗

— Earl Warren

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Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States. ↗

— Patty Hearst

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The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. ↗

— George Edward Moore

#certain #certain kinds #effects #good #kinds

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#contexts #discourse #fruitful #normal #requires

I don't make political statements; let's all have a laugh. Let's all live and be free. I try and live to the letter of the law, but right on the edge of it. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#free #i #laugh #law #letter

As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#communicating #i #me #read #saw

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#false #obvious #problem #says #self-defeating

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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