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• What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.

  Charlton Heston

  Fear, Mean, Men

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• Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Communication, Law, Community

  Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.71, Columbia University Press

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• The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach all those witnesses for lying. If Christ has not risen, we have no proof that the crucifixion of Jesus differed from that of the two thieves who suffered with him. If Christ has not risen, it is impossible to believe his atoning death was accepted.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Easter, Lying

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• Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day."

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Jesus, Caring

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• The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

  Charles Darwin

  Different, Evolution, Language

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man: the Evolution”, p.86, VM eBooks

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• Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

  Lord Kelvin

  Strong, Lying, Intelligent

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• Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Astrology, Heaven

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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• The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.

  George H. Smith

  Religion, Atheism, Doe

  George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.30, Prometheus Books

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• When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Son, Sunday

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

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• The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Mind, Needs

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• While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field.

  Ion Keith-Falconer

  Lying, Burden Of Proof, Darkness

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• ...Making people get over the concept that they've got the total proof. To get them to feel, 'Gee, I want to learn more. I want to hear anybody who can tell me something in addition to ways I already know about God or my spiritual principles.

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Optimistic, People

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• It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

  Abraham Verghese

  Memories, Stories, Alive

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.272, Random House India

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• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Lying, Intuition

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

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• The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory is a fallacy. The theory that ether does not exist, and that gravity is not a force but a property of space can only be described as a crazy vagary, a disgrace to our age.

  Charles Lane Poor

  Crazy, Science, Space

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• We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our reliance - an almost religious reliance - upon the power of science and technology to forever ensure the progress of our society, might blind us to some very real problems which cannot be solved by science and technology.

  Robert Strausz-Hupe

  Religious, Real, Technology

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• Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Death, Dying, Liberty

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• There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was "style" and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatus, just as a mathematical proof derived neatly was better than one involving laborious calculations. Rutherford's first disintegration experiment, and Chadwick's discovery of the neutron had a "style" that is different from that of experiments made with giant accelerators.

  J. A. Ratcliffe

  Science, Thinking, Simple

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• No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. It is also a first step in our attempt to find the principles implicit in familiar observational notions.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Progress, Principles

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.39, Verso

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• Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Views, Choices

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• It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

  Seneca the Younger

  Revenge, Men, Hatred

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• The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is for us Christians to love one another.

  Louis Evely

  Christian, Easter, Majority

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• The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.

  L. Harrison Matthews

  Theory Of Evolution, Special, Peculiar

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• The Bushwhackers are living proof that the Three Stooges had children

  Gorilla Monsoon

  Children, Wrestling, Three

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• The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Inspiration, Men

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