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• How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.

  Rudolf Hess

  Decision, Action, Moments

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• We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.

  Sarah Polley

  Ducks, Mad, Doubt

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• Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mistake, People, Dogma

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.547, Psychology Press

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• Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.

  Stephen Hawking

  Theory, Hypothesis, Prove It

  "A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1988.

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• I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.

  David Mumford

  Thinking, Important, Benefits

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• An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Annoyed, Needs, World

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• The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

  William Penn

  Disease, Remedy

  William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)

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• One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

  May Sarton

  Age, Elements, Old Age

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, People, Giving

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• Listen real hard to the smartest guy in the room before you go trying to prove how smart you are.

  Lee Clow

  Real, Smart, Guy

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• It's very demeaning that we have to put on a show to prove that we know how to put on a show.

  Lee Clow

  Shows, Demeaning, Know How

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• [In 2004 on being at TBWA Chiat Day for 30 years.] Different people are different in terms of the way they're made. I knew since the day I arrived at Chiat Day that I was at home, and that I was at a place where I could prove my talent and my ability... I am also married for 35 years too, so it could just be how I am.

  Lee Clow

  Home, Years, People

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• He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As a kid he always had a knack of arriving in the penalty area just at the right time, but he's proving just as effective from outside the box because he's using his experience in the right way. It doesn't matter who I am thinking about bringing into my midfield, Paul Scholes will be included, as he would in any side in the world.

  Alex Ferguson

  Kids, Player, Thinking

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• Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Men, Events

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Stress, Adventure, Alive

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• It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

  Henri Poincare

  Intuition, Logic, Prove It

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• You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  Dan Quayle

  Years, White, House

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• Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

  Plato

  Difficult, Geometry, Subjects

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• A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Data, Battle, Cry

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• To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement. Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions! And its mistakes were beauties.

  Paul Samuelson

  Wall, Mistake, Movement

  1966 Quoted inThe Samuelson Sampler (1973).

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• The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Frustration, Technology

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

  William James

  Ideas, Relation, Being True

  William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Real, Men

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.236, University of Illinois Press

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• I learned that I had to work triply hard every time I started a new job in a newsroom to prove my value and worth.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Jobs, New Job, Hard

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Pakistan is, I always feel, hopeful. You know, our system of government is not, and the system of foreign policy whereby we do whatever is asked of us as long as the price is right only proves to fundamentalist outfits and to militant groups that when we talk of things like democracy, when we talk of things like foreign policy, what we're really talking about is being pro-American.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Government, Talking, Long

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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