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Don't talk, just act. Don't say, just show. Don't promise, just prove.
Author:
Sophia Adams
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Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'
Author:
Renee Zellweger
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Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
Author:
Isaac Wise
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I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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Fermat said he had a proof.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Author:
Peter Vries
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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Author:
Virgil
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I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.
Author:
Mordechai Vanunu
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Author:
Paul Valery
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The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
Author:
Scott Turow
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
Author:
D. Trueblood
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I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof.
Author:
Clyde Tombaugh
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In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.
Author:
John Sutter
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To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
Author:
Bram Stoker
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God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.
Author:
George Smith
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If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
Author:
Paul Simon
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What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
Author:
Clifford Simak
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
Author:
Julius Rosenwald
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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Author:
Rainer Rilke
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Author:
Eddie Rickenbacker
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But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.
Author:
Thomas Reid
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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Author:
Wilhelm Reich
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And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
Author:
Bernice Reagon
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Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.
Author:
Jim Ramstad
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The proof is in the pudding when they come home. Will we have the data about their health, will we know where they were stationed, what their unit deployments were? I will need that information.
Author:
Anthony Principi
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.
Author:
Wilhelm Ostwald
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It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.
Author:
Robert Nozick
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Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
Author:
Michael Novak
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Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.
Author:
Frank Murphy
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You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.
Author:
Brittany Murphy
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Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
Author:
Ashley Montagu
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
Author:
Kate Millett
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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
Author:
Kate Millett
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There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
Author:
Wentworth Miller
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Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
Author:
Merton Miller
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Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.
Author:
Moses Mendelssohn
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
Author:
H. Mencken
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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
Author:
Herman Melville
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The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
Author:
Mary McCarthy
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Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
Author:
Mary McCarthy
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
Author:
Barry Manilow
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Author:
Maimonides
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.
Author:
Charles Lyell
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.
Author:
Sol LeWitt
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We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
Author:
George Lewes
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Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
Author:
Gottfried Leibniz
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There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.
Author:
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
Author:
Walter Lang
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God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
Author:
Donald Knuth
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A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
Author:
Morris Kline
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In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.
Author:
William King
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If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.
Author:
Kristen Johnston
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Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Author:
Pope John XXIII
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Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
Author:
Gwen Ifill
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The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
Author:
Ellsworth Huntington
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There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
Author:
Joseph Hume
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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.
Author:
Johan Huizinga
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The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
Author:
Herbert Hoover
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
Author:
Paris Hilton
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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
Author:
Henry Hazlitt
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It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
Author:
Neil Harris
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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Author:
Augustus Hare
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By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.'
Author:
Ronald Graham
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The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
Author:
Stephen Gould
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Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
Author:
Delphine Girardin
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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
Author:
Carl Gauss
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Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.
Author:
Elton Gallegly
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.
Author:
Adolf Galland
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In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
Author:
John Galbraith
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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Author:
John Galbraith
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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Author:
Stephen Fry
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
Author:
Barney Frank
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If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.
Author:
Robbie Fowler
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
Author:
M. Fisher
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Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
Author:
Martin Fischer
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Author:
George Eliot
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Author:
Thomas Edison
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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Author:
Arthur Eddington
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Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
Author:
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
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There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
Author:
John Drinkwater
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This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved to pursue those responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, until they are discovered, detained, and punished.
Author:
John Doolittle
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The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.
Author:
Rosa DeLauro
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Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.
Author:
Patti Davis
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You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.
Author:
Geoff Davis
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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.'
Author:
Mitch Daniels
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A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.
Author:
Francis Crick
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Author:
William Cowper
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
Author:
William Cowper
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Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.
Author:
Roger Corman
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We're living proof that nice guys always finish last.
Author:
Matthew Cooper
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
Author:
James Cooper
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Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
Author:
Charles Cooley
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.
Author:
Richard Cobden
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The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
Author:
John Clayton
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When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
Author:
Luc Clapier
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A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.
Author:
Jean Chretien
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
Author:
Stuart Chase
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A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
Author:
Rene Char
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The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Author:
Raymond Chandler
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Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.
Author:
Sydney Carter
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
Author:
George Bush
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The best proof of love is trust.
Author:
Joyce Brothers
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
Author:
Ben Bradlee
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The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.
Author:
Kjell Bondevik
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Author:
Annie Besant
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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
Author:
Claude Bernard
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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
Author:
John Bernal
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I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
Author:
Dirk Benedict
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
Author:
E. Bell
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
Author:
Ulrich Beck
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
Author:
Martha Beck
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Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.
Author:
Jim Barksdale
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My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.
Author:
William Banting
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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Author:
Thomas Babington
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Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
Author:
Aristophanes
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.
Author:
Roland Allen
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He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
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Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
Author:
Richard Adams
