Prove Quotes - Page 5

• It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Fashion, Years, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone.

  Thomas Huxley

  People, Absurd, Courses

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.246, University of Georgia Press

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• My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

  Fiona Apple

  Careers, Records, Want

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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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 think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.

  Kirk Douglas

  Believe, Humility, Men

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dull, Favour, Proportion

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• Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

  Charles Simmons

  Heart, Infidelity, Wish

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• To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?

  Charles Fourier

  Sex, Men, Independence

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• Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

  Winston Graham

  Decision, Arbitrary, Unyielding

  Winston Graham (1961). “Jeremy Poldark: a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791”, Vintage

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• If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Angel, Devil, Ifs

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

  Huston Smith

  Lying, Provinces

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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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• 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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• Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe

  Archimedes

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

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• I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.

  Alison Pill

  Believe, Perfect, Want

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.

  Euell Gibbons

  Beautiful, Weed, Interesting

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• We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Brain, Knowledge Of God

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• In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.

  Mother Teresa

  God Is Love, Has Beens, Serving

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• I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

  Angel Olsen

  Trying, Capable

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. February 22, 2013.

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• To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, Ignorant, Important

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.51

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• That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

  Umberto Eco

  Meaningful, Attitude, Real

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Father, Long, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• [Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Government, Two

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• Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

  Sasha Grey

  Drama, Boys, Play

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• It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.

  Simon LeVay

  Mistake, Stress, Gay

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