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• If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

  Hamid Karzai

  Country, United States, Sovereign

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• Republicans don't believe government works, and get into it to prove it will fail. Same with strippers and relationships.

  Dana Gould

  Believe, Government, Republican

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• Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.

  John Ford

  Revenge, Executioners, Prove

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• I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

  Eartha Kitt

  Three, Pieces, Paper

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• I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But one will never be able to prove it to an absolute certainty because the votes were never counted in Ohio as the result of an illegal effort by public officials to derail the recount. Even if you do not believe that the election was stolen, there is no dispute that the Republicans made a deliberate, concerted effort to tilt the results in their favor.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Believe, Intelligent, Ohio

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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• I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident.

  Lorin Stein

  Fun, Thinking, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When we got to Steamboat, we were on that big stage at five in the afternoon, and it was almost at capacity. I told my guys 'no matter what we've done to get to this point, no matter what lows, what highs, right now we are here and we've got a point to prove." It was probably one of my most memorable performances thus far.

  Cody Johnson

  Memorable, Guy, Done

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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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• 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 most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.

  Biz Stone

  Smart, Simple, People

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• I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

  Joe Torre

  Eye, People, Competition

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• i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.

  Ayn Rand

  If There Is A God, Negative, Given

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• If we give out thoughts of grouchiness and complaining, etc., we'll find more to complain about. If we send out love and affirm 'life loves me', then we are drawing experiences to ourselves that prove it's true.

  Louise Hay

  Love Life, Drawing, Giving

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Ideas, Doe

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• Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Dollars, Scarcity

  Claude C. Hopkins (2016). “Scientific Advertising”, p.59, Laurus - Lexecon Kft.

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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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• 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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• Reality bites, and I've got the teeth marks to prove it.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Reality, Teeth, Mark

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!

  Morris West

  Running, Men, Sheep

  "The Heretic" by Morris West, 1968.

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• There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Superstitions, Belief

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.507, Delphi Classics

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