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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 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 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 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 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
bills way emergencies
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great. Chris Chocola
bills married
I'm married, I'm monogamous, but I'm not dead, and Bill isn't either. Chirlane McCray
bills perfectly split
We split all the bills 50-50. So what? That's perfectly normal, isn't it? Guy Ritchie
bills computer made
I invented it, Bill made it famous. David Bradley
bills shows
Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do. Denis Leary
bills politician clinton
There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton. Ed Rollins
bills fancy reincarnation
Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce. Bernard Goldberg
bills shows
When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill. Charlie Dent
bills buttons position
You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.
thieves demon knows
I know who the demon thief is - it's me! Darren Shan
thieves life-is excited
No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. Bob Dylan
thieves lucky might
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. Barbara Ehrenreich
thieves crime rascals
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal. Aristotle
thieves alive singers
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now. Ben Kingsley
thieves heist-society
Time, the greatest thief of all. Ally Carter
thieves pleasure
Pleasure is a thief to business. Daniel Defoe
thieves ends take-time
We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always. Clive Barker
thieves stealing mere
The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things. Ann-Marie MacDonald