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• What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He’d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to prove it.’ (Styxx)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Done, Isolation, T Shirt

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.447, Macmillan

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• I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.

  Anthony Head

  Way, Believer, I Am Pretty

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• You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly. "In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it..." He glanced at the blackjack tables. Simon shook his head. "I don't count cards, Hale." "Don't?" Hale smiled. "Or won't? You know, technically, it's not illegal." "But it's frowned upon." Sweat beaded at Simon's brow. He sounded like someone had just suggested he swim after eating... run with scissors... "It is SERIOUSLY frowned upon.

  Ally Carter

  Running, Sweat, Swim

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

  Terry Goodkind

  Laughing, Needs, Want

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.416, Head of Zeus

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• he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hands, Died, Universe

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• When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

  Margaret Mead

  Cities, Looks, Canada

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• Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

  Rachel Caine

  Mind, Facts, Accepting

  Rachel Caine (2007). “Midnight Alley: The Morganville Vampires”, p.52, Penguin

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• Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You're both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it!

  Bisco Hatori

  Sibling, Fighting, Acting

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• Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.

  Leo Strauss

  Views, Doe, Certain

  Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.6, University of Chicago 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. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.

  Stephen Hawking

  Matter, Next, Hypothesis

  "A Brief History of Time". Book by Steven Hawking, 1989.

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• Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.

  Naomi Wolf

  Criticism, Use, Language

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• The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

  Bruce Barton

  Bible, Biblical, Rose

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• It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Romantic, Moments

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• Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and agressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?

  Bill Hicks

  Marijuana, Games, Drunk

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• If you can't prove it's not true then a certain number of people will glom on and say it is true.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Numbers, People, Certain

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• Revenge proves it's own executioner.

  John Ford

  Revenge, Executioners, Prove

  John Ford, William Gifford (1827). “The Dramatic Works”, p.329

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• Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Reality, Goes On, Fantasy

  Samuel R. Delany, Robert M. Williams (1964). “The towers of Toron”

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• Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection. This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth. Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good -- for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Believe, Mean, Patents

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

  Judy Garland

  Blood, Giving, Great Love

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• An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.

  Rebecca West

  Simple, Feet, Orange

  Rebecca West (1982). “Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Keys, Ethos, Common Sense

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.

  Caroline Myss

  Fire, Soul, Doe

  "Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul". Book by Caroline Myss, 2007.

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• The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court martial, I have been sentenced to death. I have served the Republic faithfully, and my death, as well as that of my brother, a victim like myself, and condemned in the same manner about a month ago, will sufficiently prove it. I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

  Wolfe Tone

  Brother, Children, Men

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• When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.

  John Shelby Spong

  Hate, Men, Taught

  "Spong's Christian Humanism". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. August 12, 2012.

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• The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

  William James

  Truth, Names, Way

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

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