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burden-of-proof people black
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome. Carol Moseley Braun
burden-of-proof bills thieves
The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share. Clay Shirky
burden-of-proof should spending
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should. Mitch Daniels
burden-of-proof essence anarchy
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met. Noam Chomsky
burden-of-proof common-sense heaven
I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof. Jo Nesbo
burden-of-proof anarchy debate
In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous. Robert Higgs
burden-of-proof burden proof
The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author. Scott Turow
common-sense important logic
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable. Bertrand Russell
common-sense common englishmen
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
common-sense brain important
Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear. Diane von Furstenberg
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
common-sense pieces furniture
Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
common-sense use logic
There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
common-sense people demand
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
common-sense people cynical
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
common-sense able bats
Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself. Charlie Munger
heaven soul desire
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. C. S. Lewis
heaven may ifs
There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going. Bette Davis
heaven glimpse courageous
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven. Anthony Storr
heaven way pity
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. Bill Vaughan
heaven going-to-heaven christianity
Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.
heaven way hardest
Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
heaven
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.
heaven looks speak
[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
heaven logic study
All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.