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What the SOLDIER said isn't evidence
1837
Pickwick Papers
III. xxxiii.
‘You must not tell us what the soldier .. said, sir,’ interposed the judge; ‘it's not evidence.’
1931
Red Stain
xii.
‘It was true!’ .. ‘True to you, .. but you have no means of proving it to us. What the soldier said is not evidence.’
1971
Season of Snows & Sins
ix.
‘There is an English
mot
about a
poilu
—no? .. What
le poilu
say cannot be in Court—is that it?’ Henry grinned. ‘What the soldier said isn't evidence.’
rumour
;
soldiers
;
truth
If you're not part of the SOLUTION, you're part of the problem
1968
Speech
(in ,
Eldridge Cleaver
(1969) 32)
What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
1975
History Man
v.
‘If you're not the solution,’ says Peter Madden, ‘you're part of the problem.’ ‘It would be terribly arrogant of me to believe I was the solution to anything.’
1977
Serial
xxvi.
Listen, don't you realize if you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem.
1985
National Review
(US) 22 Feb. 15
We must fight ‘hunger’, but never Communism, even when Communism itself is the direct cause of hunger. Well, as our redicals used to say, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
assistance
;
trouble

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