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• A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

  David M. Raup

  Science, Guilty, Innocent

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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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• It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Good Life, Intelligent, Intelligence

  "Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race". Book by Bob Fenster, September 2000.

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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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• When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and their progeny, as numerous experiments have proven; a pair of differing traits, on the other hand, are united in the hybrid to form a new trait, which usually is subject to changes in the hybrids' progeny.

  Gregor Mendel

  Science, Hands, Two

  Gregor Mendel, Alain F. Corcos, Floyd V. Monaghan (1993). “Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study”, p.69, Rutgers University Press

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• I've had moments where I didn't hit the ball very good coming in, and you've got to turn it around. That's the whole idea of practicing and really working on being focused on what I'm doing and being committed to what I'm doing. I know what the fix is and I've proven it to myself, and it's just a matter of going out there and executing it consistently over 72 holes.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Commitment, Ideas

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• According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Ignorance, Drug, Important

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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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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• Mitt Romney has a proven job creation record as governor and in the private sector.

  Gordon Smith

  Jobs, Records, Creation

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• Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Innocence, Innocent

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• Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Crazy Ideas, Can Do

  "The funny side of the street". Interview with Rick Lyman, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002.

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• Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.

  Joe Rogan

  Ideas, Growth, Doe

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• What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

  Deborah Norville

  Gratitude, Grateful, Benefits

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• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Thinking, Special, Impossible

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• Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Innovation, Development, Catalyst

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• My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

  Steven Morrissey

  Tree, Parent, Trying

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• I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

  Steven Morrissey

  Winning, Thinking, Teeth

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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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• 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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• Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

  Jorge Amado

  Love Is, Enough

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