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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. Roland Barthes | top
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. Charles Baudelaire | top
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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him. Jack Cade | top
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A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. Rene Char | top
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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. Stuart Chase | top
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If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. John Clare | top
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The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. John Clayton | top
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Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted. Roger Corman | top
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. Barney Frank | top
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it. Adolf Galland | top
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. Carl Friedrich Gauss | top
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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. Johan Huizinga | top
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There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market. Joseph Hume | top
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. John Locke | top
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Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. Mary McCarthy | top
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There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. Herman Melville | top
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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof. Kate Millett | top
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Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. Michel de Montaigne | top
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Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society. Michael Novak | top
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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. Friedrich Schiller | top
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Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof. Erich von Stroheim | top
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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. Polly Toynbee | top
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When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected. Luc de Clapier | top
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It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. Andrew Wiles | top
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I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt. Tina Yothers | top