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Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.


Simon Greenleaf


#apparently #bearing #burden #coming #custody

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.


Alan Greenspan


#ayn #ayn rand #before #believe #facts

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.


Colin Greenwood


#approach #chair #computers #constant #favourite

I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.


Andy Griffith


#i #i can #really #wise

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.


George Grosz


#anything #atmosphere #destruction #felt #great

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.


G. I. Gurdjieff


#does #doing #fantasy #feel #his

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.


George Gurdjieff


#does #doing #fantasy #feel #his

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?


Philip Gilbert Hamerton


#author #ever #more #much #observed

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.


John Heywood


#hanging #likewise #wedding

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.


David Hume


#evidence #his #man #proportions #wise