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• Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation," a device of manufacturing consent based on reinterpretation of sacred texts to serve wealth, power, and privilege.

  Noam Chomsky

  Practice, Sacred, Privilege

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

  William Penn

  Believe, Roots, Good Work

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.158

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• That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

  Patti LaBelle

  Relationship, Flower, Love Is

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• I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly say, "Oh, I see. That's how it must be." This is a sign that they explain it to themselves from within their own system.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Math, People, Understanding

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• There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it's burnt. But there's not a single demonstration project in the United States. [...] Clean coal doesn't exist.

  Al Gore

  Years, Climate, United States

  "Al Gore: Energy Crisis Can Be Fixed". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2008.

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• We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. But it was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying... It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

  Moshe Dayan

  Army, Thinking, Government

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of Christianity except the Holy Spirit, by his own almighty work of renewing the blinded heart. It is the sovereign prerogative of Christ's Spirit to convince men's consciences of the truth of Christ's gospel; and Christ's human witnesses must learn to ground their hopes of success not on clever presentation of the truth by man, but on powerful demonstration of the truth by the Spirit.

  J. I. Packer

  Powerful, Clever, Heart

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.70, InterVarsity Press

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• There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

  Carl Sagan

  Space, Earth Day, Tiny

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.

  Mike Huckabee

  Powerful, Humble, Hands

  Mike Huckabee (2008). “From Hope to Higher Ground: My Vision for Restoring America's Greatness”, Center st

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• I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.

  Jim Evans

  Educational, Training, Principles

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• The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.

  Elliott Abrams

  Iran, Years, Faces

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• It comes out of human beings, it comes from the dark side of the human being, when people don't give a hoot about other people and they'll steal and rob and rob the food out of baby's mouths, so it's incumbent on every new generation to develop a social conscience and to really defend themselves. And that takes demonstrations sometimes.

  Luis Valdez

  Baby, Dark, People

  Source: www.geekscape.net

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• The Iraq War is the first war in history, in which there were huge demonstrations before the war was launched, not beginning five years later and then being broken up. All of these are changes, and the people who are writing in journals today lived through these changes.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Writing, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [Steven] Lerner's plan starts by attacking JP Morgan Chase with demonstrations on Wall Street, protests at the annual shareholder meeting, and then calls for a coordinated mortgage strike.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Wall, Mortgage, Attacking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

  Milton Friedman

  Winning, Market Efficiency, Argument

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

  John Locke

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Ordinary

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.461

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• One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

  Steve Jobs

  Two, Numbers, People

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• I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the late '60s when the Vietnam anti-war movement grew as the Vietnam War was heating up, I became very involved in that.

  Simi Linton

  Children, Couple, War

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• It is going to be special to drive in the Netherlands because it means I can take part in a Formula One demonstration in a country where I have a lot of family and friends.

  Nelson Piquet

  Country, Mean, Special

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• I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Oysters, Drunk

  "Strong Opinions" by Vladimir Nabokov, (p. 18), 1973.

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• Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

  John Piper

  Foundation, Deeds, Salvation

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.364, Multnomah

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• I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.

  Simi Linton

  War, Hitchhiking, Disability

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• If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Together, Looks, Break

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the Muslims gathering in mass demonstrations to vehemently condemn this practice that slanders their religion? Why does contemporary Islam promote 'martyrdom' as the highest duty of Muslims? Why are photographs of suicide bombers plastered everywhere in Beirut? Because Islam is what Islam does.

  Jamie Glazov

  Suicide, Islamic, Practice

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• I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hate, Emotional, Getting Older

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