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I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints. - George Herbert To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence. - George Henry Lewes Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan Facts are stubborn things. - Tobias George Smollett Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. - Henry David Thoreau, Journal
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