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Evidence Quote by Mary Beard

“One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions.” quote by Mary Beard — Download Open image

“One of the great things about history is that it sort of isn't a done deal - ever. The historical texts and the historical evidence that you use is always somehow giving you different answers because you're asking it different questions.”

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I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger…

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We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

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“defend women’s right to be wrong, at least occasionally.”

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You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

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“we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.”

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“(In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don’t want to hear the women speak).”

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I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots…

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People who exploit others come to spend an enormous amount of energy wondering about and justifying that exploitation.

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Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.'

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I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

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“thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb (‘to power’), not as a possession.”

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If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than…

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The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,…

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Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if…

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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become…

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“What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.”

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“Dogmatism compensates for evidence.”

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There's overwhelming evidence... circumstantial and otherwise, to suggest a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda.

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Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches…

Henry Ward Beecher

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“Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.”

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The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

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