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• Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

  Hudson Taylor

  Faithful, Reason, Found

  James Hudson Taylor (2010). “China's Spiritual Need and Claims”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Imagination, Optical Illusions

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• Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Brother, Believe, Heart

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• Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

  Charles Williams

  Devotion, Ends, Given

  Charles Williams (2016). “He Came Down From Heaven”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

  John Denham

  Doubt, Knows, Seeking

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• I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

  David Jenkins

  Clever, Bones, Conjuring

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• Kevin Reeves...proving an ill wind blows nobody no good.

  David Coleman

  Football, Blow, Wind

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• The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

  Bill Vaughan

  Wise, Knowing, Wonderful

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• The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.

  Lord Byron

  School, Son, Boys

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• I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Lazy, Actors, Failing

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Scarlett Johansson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Spiritual, Art, Real

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I never felt I had to prove myself with anything.

  Cameron Diaz

  Prove Myself, Felt

  "The Holiday - Cameron Diaz interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

  Jet Li

  Art, Struggle, Self

  "Jet Li Gets Philosophical in Fearless". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 19, 2006.

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• If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level.

  James Dobson

  Children, Thinking, Lazy

  Dr. James Dobson (2015). “Building Confidence in Your Child”, p.136, Revell

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• Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable.

  Josh Smith

  Art, Nice, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Science probes; it does not prove.

  Gregory Bateson

  Doe

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• It's hard to not get typed in Hollywood. They really want to type you. I'm trying to avoid that, because I want to do a lot of things. I know what I'm capable of. I forgive them because they don't know. They haven't seen me play Hamlet. They're not going to cast me as an English aristocrat. I'm going to have to prove that on my own. That's okay. That's what you have to fight for if you want to be an artist.

  Sam Rockwell

  Fighting, Artist, Play

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Tavoris Cloud might actually be hungrier than me. How often do you hear a fighter say that his opponent is hungrier than he is? I don't need hunger. I'm motivated by my desire to prove that I'm different and that I can still silence the critics.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Clouds, Silence, Desire

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• Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Theory, Vague

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• I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

  Terrell Owens

  Book, Who I Am, People

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• Whether it's in the playoffs or not, you have to keep proving yourself.

  Marc Bulger

  Proving Yourself, Playoffs

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• In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.

  Jet Li

  Fun, Fighting, Reality

  "Jet Li Gets Philosophical in Fearless". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 19, 2006.

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• Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

  Don DeLillo

  May, Kind, Time Will Tell

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Ratner's Star”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

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• Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

  Huston Smith

  Lying, Provinces

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• But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Running, Exercise, Hands

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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