"Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth."
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"To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here."
"In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed."
"Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death... It's possible. Even when you have no evidence to point to.... It's possible."
"I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself."
"No one knows what stocks will do tomorrow, but the evidence is clear as to how they'll perform over 10 or 20 years. They will almost certainly go up."
"Faith is the evidence of the unseen."
"Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?"