"Reality does not conform to the ideal, but…" — Gustave Flaubert

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• Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. — Elizabeth Bowen
• Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward,… — Lord Byron
• My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of… — Jimmy Carter
• Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles… — Sun Tzu
• The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can… — Fred Rogers
• I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that. — Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
• This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of… — Pope Pius XI
• Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their… — Frank J. Tipler
• Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
• What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases… — Horace
• Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that… — Robert J. Samuelson

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