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• She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.

  Anne Stuart

  Hate, Hands, Knives

  Anne Stuart (2012). “Ice Storm”, p.246, Harlequin

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• God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.

  Philip K. Dick

  Space, Floating, World

  Philip K. Dick (2013). “Our Friends from Frolix 8”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

  Emily Bronte

  Remember You, Remembers You, Deeds

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.531, Penguin

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• You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly. "In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it..." He glanced at the blackjack tables. Simon shook his head. "I don't count cards, Hale." "Don't?" Hale smiled. "Or won't? You know, technically, it's not illegal." "But it's frowned upon." Sweat beaded at Simon's brow. He sounded like someone had just suggested he swim after eating... run with scissors... "It is SERIOUSLY frowned upon.

  Ally Carter

  Running, Sweat, Swim

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.

  William Goldman

  Running, Stupid, Men

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.100, A&C Black

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• Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

  Rachel Caine

  Mind, Facts, Accepting

  Rachel Caine (2007). “Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires”, p.52, Penguin

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• You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of." Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake." "Sure you do." "I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those." "Yeah? Prove it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Cupcakes, Want, Yeah

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.99, Penguin

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• What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He’d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to prove it.’ (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Done, Isolation, T Shirt

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.447, Macmillan

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• They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

  Emily Dickinson

  Suffering, Age, Tests

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.355, Harvard University Press

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• Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

  Terry Goodkind

  Laughing, Needs, Want

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.416, Head of Zeus

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• he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hands, Died, Universe

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• So its mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something youre saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.

  Art Garfunkel

  Tape, Lines, Want

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• If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Ideas, Mathematics, Stills

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• It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet know which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Wisdom, Views, Waiting

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 7 : Majority Rules, 1960.

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• I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it!

  Victor Mature

  Actors, Film, Prove

  "Trivia/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

  George Santayana

  Waiting, Realization, Ideals

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.26, Рипол Классик

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• Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

  Lech Walesa

  Freedom, Struggle, Soul

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• I feel like I'm one of the best strikers in MMA. I just need the time to prove it. You haven't really seen my full potential yet.

  Anthony Pettis

  Mma, Full Potential, Needs

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• How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Sex, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3377, Delphi Classics

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• Ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Guilt, Mouths, Coercion

  "Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 20, 1961.

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• The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Military, Character, Israel

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• This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Mean, Patents, Doe

  "May the Source Be With You". Wired, December 9, 2001.

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• You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

  Barry Levinson

  Certain, Happens, Things Happen

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wine, Order, Water

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.39

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• I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

  Fergie

  Girl, Trying, Lines

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