Proof Quotes
1410 quotes by 1072 authors
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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…
— Wilhelm Reich
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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…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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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.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to…
— Salman Rushdie
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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
— Friedrich Schiller
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The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as…
— Eric Schmidt
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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.
— Albert Schweitzer
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God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer…
— Rob Sheffield
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Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of…
— Rob Sheffield
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
— Paul Simon
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Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover,…
— Eliot Spitzer
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One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is…
— Lysander Spooner
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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,…
— Bram Stoker
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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit…
— Polly Toynbee
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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…
— Paul Valery
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
— Peter De Vries
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
— Walt Whitman
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My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.
— Carnie Wilson
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it…
— Oscar Wilde
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