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• He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.

  Katherine Dunn

  Pain, Proof Of Love, Nausea

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• It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

  Augustus Hare

  Loss, Evil, Prejudice

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  To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Strength, Heart

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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• Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

  Martin Heidegger

  Possibility, Latter

  Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh, Dennis J. Schmidt (2010). “Being and Time”, p.117, SUNY Press

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• I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

  Paris Hilton

  Stupid, Intelligent, Blonde

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• With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

  Herbert Hoover

  Ethos, Progress, Fundamentals

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.30, Stanford University Press

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• The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Greatness, Criticism

  "A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings".

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• ...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

  Julia Child

  Theory

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• ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

  Aeschylus

  Party, Men, Two Sides

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• And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks

  Tom Robbins

  Sublime, Tasks, Goes On

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• When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Moving, Speak

  Marilynne Robinson (2015). “Housekeeping”, p.49, Faber & Faber

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• Anything's possible. I am the proof.

  Diamond Dallas Page

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• There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.

  Jean Cocteau

  Proof Of Love

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• Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.

  Rob Sheffield

  Past, Years, Black

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• Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

  Paul Simon

  Faith, Reality, Islands

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Long, Levels, Eras

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• One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Support, Essentials

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”

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• There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

  Bram Stoker

  Teaching, Past, Ghouls

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.203, Zillmann Publishing

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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

  Happiness, Government, Gdp

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

  Peter De Vries

  God, Fear, Order

  Mackerel Plaza ch. 1 (1958)

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• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Leaves Of Grass, Poet

  Walt Whitman (2009). “Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile”, p.34, University of Iowa Press

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• My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.

  Carnie Wilson

  Memories, Cells, Magic

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• I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

  Oscar Wilde

  Morning, Writing, Perfection

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.225, Wordsworth Editions

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• After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.

  John Steinbeck

  Dirty, Writing, Boys

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Pastures of Heaven”, p.59, Penguin

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• If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Music, God

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 11, 2015

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