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• Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.

  Margaret Mahy

  Sight, Proof Of Love, People

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• I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship.

  Katherine Philips

  Friendship, Funeral, Soul

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• The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Music, Needed

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.66, Seven Stories Press

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• Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

  Mary Collyer

  Answers, Heroic, Appearance

  Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.203

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• I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.

  Koki Hirota

  Fashion, Army, Blood

  "Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing". Book by Robert Sabella, p. 56, 2002.

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• Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does.

  Lucio Russo

  Finite Number, Numbers, Doe

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!

  Zoe Akins

  Impossible, Blame, Injustice

  Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”

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• What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so many sympathies! When we consider how exquisite are those conditions by which it is even made capable of so much suffering--the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart,--what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its chords.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

  Ariana Franklin

  Firsts, Happy Endings, Crime

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• Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

  Ariana Franklin

  Taken, Ghost, Fingerprints

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• Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Party, Great Love, Love And Friendship

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• Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

  Wendy Shalit

  Sexy, Modesty, Morality

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• moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  People, Our Society, Morality

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.41, Zed Books

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• What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.

  Timothy Gowers

  Independent, Principles, Doe

  Timothy Gowers (2010). “Mathematics”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.

  George Lopez

  Dream, Kids, Thinking

  "Seriously Funny". Interview with Brett Wilbur, www.carmelmagazine.com. February 1, 2007.

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• If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.

  Byron Katie

  Silence, Silent, Minutes

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Mind, May, Causes

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• Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where is the spirit? Seek it in your everyday experience, and therein lies abundance of proof for all you need.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Lying, Everyday, Experience

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.55, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Friendship, Needs, Way

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• You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they have. They are withholding judgment, offering compassion, being that light they want to see in the world. They are the hands and the feet of God on earth, vessels of holiness, chalices of generosity. The next time someone calls himself a Christian, look for these qualities for the living proof.

  Jan Phillips

  Christian, Real, Compassion

  "Republicans and the Christian Vote" by Jan Phillips, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februuary 19, 2012.

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• While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Winner, Strategy, Optimal

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his existence must be confirmed by you first. Your being and knowing you owe nobody. Remember, you are entirely on your own. You do not come from somewhere, you do not go anywhere. You are timeless being and awareness.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Knowing, Remember You, Remembers You

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• I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.

  Paul Mooney

  Morning, People, Black

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• ... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

  George Eliot

  Reading, Brain, Obvious

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• No, by my soul, I never in my life
  Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,
  Unless a brother should a brother dare
  To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Exercise, Challenges

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.753, BookCaps Study Guides

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