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• But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.

  Alison Lurie

  Thinking, Self, Doe

  Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.146, Open Road Media

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• It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.

  Amy Poehler

  Mother, People, Interesting

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• A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

  Mary Antin

  Men, Unfinished Work, Yesterday

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Men, Frustrated

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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• It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Moving, Writing

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, October 13, 2011.

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• My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Views, Lunatic Asylums, Planets

  "God Is Not Great". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. 2011.

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• I have been one who believes that abortion is the taking of a human life . . . . The fact that they could not resolve the issue of when life begins was a finding in and of itself. If we don't know, then shouldn't we morally opt on the side that it is life? If you came upon an immobile body and you yourself could not determine whether it was dead or alive, I think that you would decide to consider it alive until somebody could prove it was dead. You wouldn't get a shovel and start covering it up. And I think we should do the same thing with regard to abortion.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Thinking, Issues

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• The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

  Charles Hodge

  Bible, God, Christian

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• I don't understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all those countries and they cry in all the same places in my show. They laugh in the same places. They become hysterical in the same places. They faint in the same places and that's the perfect hypothesis. There is a commonality that we are all the same.

  Michael Jackson

  Country, Play, Racism

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• The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

  Paul Cezanne

  Truth Is, Prove

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