Proven Quotes - Page 2

• Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Innocence, Innocent

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• In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

  Helen Thomas

  Nice, Past, Men

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• If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

  Jon Stewart

  Rights, September 11, Liberty

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• I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built.

  Wesley Snipes

  Country, Thinking, Trials

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• The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Believe, Heart

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

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• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  Carl Lewis

  Motivational, Feet, Long

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• I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.

  Ang Lee

  Religious, Thinking, Doe

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• If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.

  Steven Pinker

  Commitment, Makeup, Vulnerable

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.18, Penguin

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• In domestic life the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She "wants" to be at home, and because she is a woman she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

  Rachel Cusk

  Home, Desire, Want

  "The simmering but stymied rage of stay-at-home mums" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

  Billy Corgan

  World, Arms, Matter

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• Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Believe, Literature, Evolution

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• A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

  Jean Chretien

  Funny, Kind, Proof

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• Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

  Julie Burchill

  Discipline, People, Mind

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• Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!

  Bob Beauprez

  Oil, Colorado, World

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• Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Believe, Moving, People

  Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group

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• The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.

  Ally Carter

  Lying, Boys, Years

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• You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.

  William Goldman

  Thinking, Alive, Traps

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Religious, Keys, Roots

  "How Women Can Save the Planet". The Scientific American Article, www.scientificamerican.com. November 1, 2009.

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• It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.

  Alveda King

  Men, Generations, Guarantees

  "Alveda King Speaks at Glenn Beck's DC Rally" by Kevin Dolak, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2010.

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• No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

  Michio Kaku

  Beautiful, Matter, Facts

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• But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Expression, Worry, Soul

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.

  Eric Clapton

  Doctrine, Spirituality, Trustworthy

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, Awful, Long Time

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.100, Harper Collins

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• We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Self Worth, Firsts

  "A Declaration of Independence". Malcolm X's Statement at the Park Sheraton Hotel, New York City, New York, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 12, 1964.

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• It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

  Daniel Handler

  Prove, Persons, Proven Wrong

  "The Reptile Room". Book by Daniel Handler, 1999.

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