Prove It Quotes - Page 10

• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Math, Two, Giving

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• Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Love Is

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• What shocked me was three different anti-prostitution feminists asking me to justify that I had been a sex worker, to prove it. That either I hadn't done enough sex work by their standards, or I hadn't done the right kind in order to have the right to speak about it. I couldn't understand them. I'm not speaking for you. I'm not speaking "for" anyone. I'm trying to put together this picture of the different forces that are producing a result in the lives of sex workers. You can't contest the fact that tons of people are going to jail and experiencing violence.

  Melissa Gira Grant

  People, Feminist, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.

  Mark Levin

  Children, Makeup, Blood

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself

  Henry Ford

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Running, Thinking, Shows

  "My Faith Pulled Me Through" by Sheila Weller, www.sfgate.com. November 5, 2012.

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• I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Atheist, Plato, Believe

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• Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it.

  William Soutar

  Art, Art Is, Prove

  William Soutar (2000). “Into a Room: Selected Poems of William Soutar”, Argyll Publishing

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• I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

  Samuel Johnson

  Reading, Prove, Labour

  'The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Notes' (1765) preface (Yale ed., p. 108)

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• Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial, and not an inquisitorial, system - a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured, and may not, by coercion, prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Guilt, Principles

  "Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 20, 1961.

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• You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

  Leslie Ford

  Long, West, Dough

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• Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.

  Jim Carrey

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds can be found, either when we reach out into space and time in which it is dispersed, or when we take a bit of this wealth, and by division enter into it. Moreover, sense-certainty appears to be the truest knowledge ... but, in the event, this very certainty proves itself to be the most abstract and poorest truth. All that it says about what it knows is just that it is; and its truth contains nothing but the sheer being of the thing.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Space, Events, Division

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• If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

  Robert Orben

  People, Crooks, Stories

  "Comics' Barbs Keep White House Hopefuls On The Run" by Thomas J. Brazaitis, The Plain Dealer, p. 4A, March 14, 1992.

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• Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Humor, Length, Spaniards

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.14, Penguin

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• Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the psychologically maimed may become the most distinguished man of his age. Take Freud for instance.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Men, Frustrated

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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• Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists whom I employ to prove it) that Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue.

  Robertson Davies

  Work, Names, People

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

  Mary Antin

  Men, Unfinished Work, Yesterday

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it.

  Alison Lurie

  Thinking, Self, Doe

  Alison Lurie (2012). “Real People: A Novel”, p.146, Open Road Media

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• It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.

  Amy Poehler

  Mother, People, Interesting

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• The Jews got together to protect him. And I'll prove it.

  Roy Payne

  Together, Protect, Jew

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• The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Sex, Dating, Fans

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• AB=1/4((A+B)^2-(A-B)^2) is an amazing identity, and unfortunately, I have to remind my current students how to prove it.

  Ronald Graham

  Science, Identity, Students

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• Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing is to prove that it is not possible to disprove it, since it will tell you not to waste your time trying to disprove it. That's what Gödel did for the Continuum Hypothesis.

  Saharon Shelah

  Science, Trying, Waste

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• Adultery is the vice of equivocation.
  It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.

  Alexander Theroux

  Art, Color, Law

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