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• Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Decay, Sometimes, Certain

  Karen Thompson Walker (2014). “The Age of Miracles”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Maturity, Expression, Servant Of God

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• You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, People, Needs

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• I believe in things that have proof.

  Callan McAuliffe

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Imagination, Sensual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1162, Delphi Classics

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• We do not have to prove the Book of Mormon is true. The book is its own proof.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Prove

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Character, Moderation, Ostentatious

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• Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Ignorance, Superficial Knowledge, Genius

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Public Opinion, Merit, Importance

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• It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

  Augustus Hare

  Loss, Evil, Prejudice

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  To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Strength, Heart

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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• Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

  Martin Heidegger

  Possibility, Latter

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh, Dennis J. Schmidt (2010). “Being and Time”, p.117, SUNY Press

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• I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

  Paris Hilton

  Stupid, Intelligent, Blonde

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• With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

  Herbert Hoover

  Ethos, Progress, Fundamentals

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.30, Stanford University Press

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• The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Greatness, Criticism

  "A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings".

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• Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.

  Rob Sheffield

  Past, Years, Black

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• Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

  Paul Simon

  Faith, Reality, Islands

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Long, Levels, Eras

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• One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Support, Essentials

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”

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• There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

  Bram Stoker

  Teaching, Past, Ghouls

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.203, Zillmann Publishing

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• Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

  Polly Toynbee

  Happiness, Government, Gdp

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

  Peter De Vries

  God, Fear, Order

  Mackerel Plaza ch. 1 (1958)

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• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Leaves Of Grass, Poet

  Walt Whitman (2009). “Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile”, p.34, University of Iowa Press

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• My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.

  Carnie Wilson

  Memories, Cells, Magic

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• I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Writing, Perfection

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.225, Wordsworth Editions

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