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I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison
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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Bertrand Russell
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The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

Logan Pearsall Smith
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We don't make fun of the music in the slightest. We treat it with the utmost respect.

Jeffrey Lesser
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We cannot lower our guard in the slightest degree against the risk of bird flu triggering a new epidemic.

Mao Qun'an
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The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.

George Leigh Mallory
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If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit suprised.

Dorothy Parker
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If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludic.

Marie Louise De La Ramee
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If we wanted to use Goldman's services, she doesn't want there to be even the slightest perception of any conflict. She's doing this because she thinks quite highly of the firm.

Henry Gomez
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.

Otto von Bismarck
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I am shocked and dismayed by the numerous leaks regarding Mrs. Currie's grand jury testimony, ... I want to be absolutely clear: to the extent there is any implication or the slightest suggestion that Mrs. Currie believed that the president or anyone else tried to influence her recollection, that is absolutely false and a mischaracterization of the facts.

Lawrence Wechsler
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Otto von Bismarck
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I read the Social Democratic newspapers, I saw their disgusting attitude towards anything that bore even the slightest revolutionary character, and I realized that there could be no reconciliation between a revolutionary party and a party trying to e.

Peter Kropotkin
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Before Munich, we were simply terrorists. After Munich, at least people started asking, 'Who are these terrorists? What do they want?' Before Munich, nobody had the slightest idea about Palestine.

Abu Daoud
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If someone has the slightest interest in joining our group, no matter how inexperienced, she should really come and try us out. You don't have to know how to read music, or even be a great singer; we'll teach you.

Janet Kushmerek
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I'd spent 10 years learning my craft, and I'm just a professional writer, and how I'm perceived doesn't matter to me in the slightest - because I don't live in L.A., I don't go to parties, I don't go to openings - I just keep my head down and do my job.

John Logan
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We must not allow the slightest breath of suspicion to arise that we want to quit NATO, ... the business of NATO alone.

Rudolf Scharping
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I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

Theodore C. Sorensen
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The manuscript was so brittle, it would crumble at the slightest touch.

Rodolphe Kasser
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If you're the slightest bit entrepreneurial, you can reach large numbers of consumers instantly over the Internet, while key-word searches at Google let consumers reach you just as quickly. The Web is an amazing marketplace.

Joanne Pratt
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I think it will be even harder this year. We're going to have to be really, really focused the whole 90 minutes of each game. It could turn on the slightest incident.

William Gallas
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Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the knob is asked to identify himself. The agent then says, "I'm going to ask you to come with me."

David Sedaris
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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Francois Fenelon
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

Oswald Spengler
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I haven't the slightest idea who he is.

Robert Hernandez
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If you are a military man you know that you just don't do these sorts of things because once you give just the slightest bit of leeway there are those in the armed forces who will take advantage of that.

Lawrence Wilkerson
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You don't have to be hip to get this movie. Any person with the slightest bit of irony gets it.

Jeffrey Wells
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I haven't detected the slightest hint of Dylan intervening or even wishing to intervene in the way that Scorsese has made the film.

Anthony Wall
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Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.

Lars Von Trier
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There's no fear of supply shortage whatsoever. There's nothing out there giving the slightest hint that the supply and demand balance could tighten in the near term.

Peter Bogin
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But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power—they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

Mary Stewart
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My advice for people who travel and want to share their adventures with others is to think carefully about their goals. If there is even the slightest bit of 'this makes me better than you' behind the desire... then perhaps it is best to keep your mouth shut.

Jennifer Crocker
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Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

Gary Player
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If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

Christian Bale
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To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

Byron R. White
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Any slightest fluctuation could drive speculations on the oil price.

Zhang Guobao
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For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

Alma Guillermoprieto
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Alice Miller
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What happens now, I haven't the slightest idea.

Mario Pescante
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And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the slightest soundTo show that I'm awake,She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,My pillow softly shake;Kiss me, and turn my face to seeThe shadows on the wall,And then sing Rousseau's Dream to me,Till fast asleep I fall.

William Allingham
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Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Francois de Fenelon
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I don't have the slightest idea what happened. I did four previous spacewalks, never lost an item. ... I have absolutely no explanation for why things came loose.

Jerry Ross
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I wouldn't make the slightest concession for moral leadership. It's much overrated.

Dean Rusk
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I was proud that I made it through the program, because no one expected us to. They got rid of a lot of us for the slightest of reasons.

William Patterson
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I haven't the slightest clue as to why I got more than anybody else.

Stephani Holley
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[It is definitely funny when, reacting to a suggestion that Hitler might have wanted to kill the Jewish part of himself symbolically, a self-described skinhead says,] I don't see him as suicidal in the slightest, ... Rupert Murdoch is a Jew.

Marc Levin
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Presently, nobody has the slightest idea how the Gulf of Maine is supposed to work as a mature system.

Ron Huber
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There is zero chance any member of the Fortune 100 would ever pay corporate taxes ahead of time. Corporations do not have the slightest interest in paying corporate taxes early. They're not going to volunteer money to the government.

Clint Stretch
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Katharine Whitehorn
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We just need to be very careful in our outdoor activities. The slightest cigarette butt can create such a small spark, but such a large fire and a major tragedy for someone.

Michelann Ooten
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What really upset me is censorship of the slightest hint of Christianity.

Lloyd Marcus
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Sometimes/ a word is found so right it trembles/ at the slightest explanation.

Rita Dove
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Walter Gilbert
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Eliza Cook
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