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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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• 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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• The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.

  Mike Rowe

  Understanding, Pedants, Sides

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• God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, People, Waiting

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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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• When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with that. Some of the finest acting I've ever come across has been for film.

  Clive Owen

  People, Acting, Actors

  Interview with RZA, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2015.

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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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• 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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• As long as [Mikhail] Saakashvili is president, I will be unable to prove my innocence in Georgia. Seen in this light, there is a positive aspect to my arrest in Germany. It will be much easier for me to refute the charges here.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Light, Long, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Lasts, Last Day

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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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• The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist--a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.

  Ed Parker

  Strong, Fighting, Pride

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• Reincarnation ... makes life what it is intended to be -- a glorious adventure in which victory is absolutely sure to be ours if we persist. It proves that man [is] ... master of his fate on his road to the stars.

  Shaw Desmond

  Stars, Adventure, Fate

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• Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Favorites Things, My Favorite

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• I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

  Jilly Cooper

  Home, Holiday, Way

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• General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Meaningful, Mistake, Intelligent

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• Why aren't you more grateful when I prove how wrong you've been?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Grateful

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• By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tree, Persons, Deserve

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• If you don't like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don't like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ideas, Use, Fists

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• I learned that I had to work triply hard every time I started a new job in a newsroom to prove my value and worth.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Jobs, New Job, Hard

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• We're living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That's because, on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need. America is productive enough that it could probably shelter, feed, educate, and even provide health care for its entire population with just a fraction of us actually working ... Our problem is not that we don't have enough stuff-it's that we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  America, Goal, People

  "Are jobs obsolete?". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2011.

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• The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims . . . were working people: janitors, secretaries, firemen, etc. It is likely to prove to be a crushing blow to Palestinians . . . It is also likely to lead to harsh security controls, with many possible ramifications for undermining civil liberties and internal freedom.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crush, Blow, People

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• You know what I think the guy who reviewed the live show for Pitchfork suffers from? Shy/asshole confusion. I'm not an asshole. I don't think I have to prove that to anyone, but I'm just putting that out there. I just think people should know that I'm not trying too hard. I think some people are just bitter that they ended up reviewing the show rather than playing the show, perhaps.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Thinking, People, Confusion

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• It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Possible And Impossible, Impossible

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.131, Princeton University Press

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• We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.

  Sarah Polley

  Ducks, Mad, Doubt

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