Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance...

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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I went to the store the other day to buy a bolt for our front door, for, as I told the storekeeper, the governor was coming here. "Aye," said he, "and the legislature too." "Then I will take two bolts," said I.

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What is religion? That which is never spoken.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

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The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

—George Bernard Shaw

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