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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where… — Zora Neale Hurston
It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof… — H. L. Mencken
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various… — Roland Barthes
Love, being in love, isnâ€™t a constant thing. It doesnâ€™t always flow at the same strength. Itâ€™s not always like a river in flood. Itâ€™s… — Aidan Chambers
The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else. — Alain de Botton
We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that… — Arthur Machen
Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who… — Douglas Adams
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance… — Carl Sagan
Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?' I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said… — C.S. Lewis
I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking… — George Saunders
Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of… — Rod McKuen
In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good,… — Markus Zusak
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something… — Muriel Barbery
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs… — Jorge Amado
It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women… — Libba Bray
...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known. — Irving Stone
There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation. — William Sloane Coffin
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality — Aphra Behn
Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles… — Dan Brown

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