Proved Quotes
700 quotes by 566 authors
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs…
— Walter Lippmann
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I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion.…
— Adolf Hitler
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While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint,…
— Douglas MacArthur
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If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is…
— Charles Eliot Norton
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for…
— Saint Augustine
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Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness…
— Cesar Chavez
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... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who…
— Edward Kennedy
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There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody,…
— Orson Scott Card
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Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go.
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain…
— John Stuart Mill
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though…
— Martin Gardner
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I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical…
— Bertrand Russell
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness…
— J. Reuben Clark
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they…
— Joseph Sobran
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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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