quotes about Convincing Evidence

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The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmented and inconclusive, that more can be said about what is missing than about what is present. ...but ever since Darwin's work inspired the notion that fossils linking modern man and extinct ancestor would provide the most convincing proof of human evolution, preconceptions have led evidence by the nose in the study of fossil man.
-- John Reader

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Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
-- Ben Nelson

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“But you donâ€™t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.â€ â€œYou donâ€™t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isnâ€™t always out to get you.”
“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”

Source : Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”
“Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.”
“Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.”
“Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.”

Source : "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2010.
“It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.”
“When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.”
“I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.”

Source : Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.259, We Publish Books
“In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.”

Source : Source: louderthanwar.com
“The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.”