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perfectly medieval...there was never any evidence of espionage.


Jonathan Turley

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RICHARD NELSON The investigation just never did produce any solid physical evidence of any kind.
GEORGE WILSON There is no DNA evidence that shows she was touched by any of these boys.
JOE CHESHIRE Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected...
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JACK HENRY ABBOTT This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.
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JONATHAN TURLEY This is not in any way, shape or form an espionage case,
JANET LEVINE The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
ALDRICH AMES He was convicted on his own statement. There was absolutely no evidence [my client] had anything per...
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GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO There was enough evidence of conspiracy.
PROSECUTOR PRUDENCIO JALANDONI There was evidence that he was there.
CRAIG QUIGLEY There is no evidence of any kind except that is directed toward Oswald.
JOHN SHERMAN COOPER There was never any hesitation. We never had any doubt about his credibility.
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BETTY SCHWAB There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We have to go by the evidence, and there was no evidence of human intrusion.
CHERYL AVERY Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
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BIBLE Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?
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CHARLIE PILE Plus, there was very little physical evidence of what happened.
CHRIS TRENKMANN There was evidence of damage or missing toenails of these children.
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EVAN DANDO There was never any thought to dropping the festival.
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KARISSA BURDICK There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
JACKIE COOPER Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found tha...
ALISON WEIR Possibly the arson was to cover up any evidence in the burglary.
MIKE ALLEN We don't think there's any evidence at all that he has endorsed terrorism. In fact, there is overwhe...
JAMEEL JAFFER Always school first, golf second. There was never any question.
RUDY DURAN Any comments or suggestions President Clinton committed to the release or promised the release of Jo...
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JOHN LE CARRE The prosecution team in this case is unaware of any discoverable information that has not been discl...
DAVID LAUFMAN We have not had any charge laid formally against the accused, nor have we had any evidence as to wha...
ABDEL HAQ ALANI He was arrested by FBI agents as a material witness in the espionage case.
GILBERTO ASUQUE The reason the state didn't bring you any objective evidence in this case is because the only object...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is n...
WALT WHITMAN There was never any probable cause for the second search warrant,
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DAVID BERGMAN Bloody medieval most of them
IAN BOTHAM There has never been anywhere in the court documents, or anywhere else, the allegation that he spied...
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GARY BARNETT I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the ma...
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JEFF BLACKETT There is insufficient evidence that there was intentional wrongdoing by David Wittig.
JEFF MORRIS If I thought there was any area of conflict, I would never have agreed to serve.
JACK SMITH ...at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence ...
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JANE RISSLER I don't see any evidence of her being ostracized.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr...
JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT