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• Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Oxygen, Logical Arguments

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• No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong.

  Robert Heller

  Business, Effort, Executives

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• I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.

  James Thurber

  Dream, Book, Ohio

  James Thurber, Thomas Fensch (1989). “Conversations with James Thurber”, p.126, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The human understanding is a revelation from its maker, which can never be disputed or doubted. There can be no scepticism, Pyrrhonism, or incredulity or infidelity here. No prophecies, no miracles are necessary to prove this celestical communication. This revelation has made it certain that two and one make three, and that one is not three nor can three be one. We can never be so certain of any prophecy, or the fulfilment of any prophecy, or of any miracle, or the design of any miracle, as we are from the revelation of nature, that is, nature's God, that two and two are equal to four.

  John Adams

  Communication, Two, Miracle

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.66

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• It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

  Voltaire

  Christian, Brother, Art

  Voltaire (1976). “Candide”, p.119, Lulu.com

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• Don’t try to change someone’s worldview is the strategy smart marketers follow. Don’t try to use facts to prove your case and to insist that people change their biases. You don’t have enough time and you don’t have enough money. Instead, identify a population with a certain worldview, frame your story in terms of that worldview and you win.

  Seth

  Smart, Winning, People

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• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

  Adam Smith

  Self, Purpose, May

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.274

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• I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

  David Paterson

  Thinking, People, Desire

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• War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

  Charles Mackay

  War, Eye, Men

  Charles Mackay (1846). “Voices from the Crowd: And Other Poems”, p.23

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• When you believe something is impossible, your mind goes to work for you to prove why. But when you believe, really believe, something can be done, your mind goes to work for you and helps you find the ways to do it.

  David J. Schwartz

  Believe, Mind, Done

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.92, Penguin

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• I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

  Scott Spencer

  Mother, Men, Busy

  Scott Spencer (2010). “Men in Black”, p.123, Open Road Media

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• It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

  Edward Young

  Strength, Spirit, Disguise

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• If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

  Sam Harris

  Logical Arguments, Should, Invoke

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• The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.

  John Adams

  Sunday, Appearance

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• My countrymen, I am wholeheartedly thankful to you today for proving that change isn't coming but it has ALREADY COME!

  Imran Khan

  Today, Countrymen, Wholeheartedly

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• The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist--a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.

  Ed Parker

  Strong, Fighting, Pride

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• So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that HIs resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.

  Hudson Taylor

  Giving, Grace, Trials

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• Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

  William Bennett

  Needs, May, Too Much

  "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". Book by William Bennett, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1993.

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• It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Religious, Military, War

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• Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Taken, Rooms, Hospitality

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• We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

  George Jackson

  Action, Predictions

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• Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Mean, Successful

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I”, Lulu.com

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• I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

  Michelle Williams

  Years, Parent, Independence

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• The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Depth, Belief

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.32

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• Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

  Hudson Taylor

  Faithful, Reason, Found

  James Hudson Taylor (2010). “China's Spiritual Need and Claims”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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