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Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know… — T.D. Jakes
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of… — C.S. Lewis
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains… — Robert Macfarlane
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been… — Cathy Rigby
I will prove that the world is wrong, by showing what God is...God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted man,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying… — Don Feder
...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point… — Criss Jami
Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern… — Barry Goldwater
Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality… — Brennan Manning
It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the… — Galileo Galilei
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion. — Samuel Johnson
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the… — Ludwig von Mises
Sarah Palin was delivering a speech and she said 'refudiate.' It's not a word â€“ you have refute and repudiate, and she combined them. A… — David Letterman
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so… — Hypatia
After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son. — Josh McDowell
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut… — Tom Stoppard
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that… — Joseph Heller
One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it. — Michael J. Sullivan
If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear… — Thomas Jefferson

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