“You have to believe evidence when you have it in front of you, or else the universe is just too fantastic.”
Source: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 12, “Tau Ceti” (p. 122)
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“To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.”
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“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”
Source: Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers' Power

(1980's)as quoted in 'A painter's testament: De Kooning in the Eighties', Robert Storr, Moma-website http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1997/dekooning/essay.html, reprinted in 1997
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