Proven Quotes - Page 6

• If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life than a non-believer.

  Woody Allen

  Believe, Bail, Santa

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• Vaccines [measles] have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don't take vaccines is children get measles and die. So the anti-vaccine crowd has, you know, kept measles around in a way that - you know, it's a tragedy, because so much is done to make sure these things are safe.

  David Oshinsky

  Children, Vaccines, Tragedy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Since all taxpayers are being forced to fund the religion of evolution in schools and it is evolution that must be proven to be the only way our universe came into being like the textbooks say, what happens if one jury member will not vote with the rest?

  Kent Hovind

  School, Scary, Textbooks

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• I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

  Charles Stross

  Space, Long, Radiation

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Philosophy, Darkness, Fiction

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• The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.

  T.C. Boyle

  World, Maps, Way

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• This is really a crazy idea, you know. It probably won't work, but that will be interesting, too. You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive. Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Crazy, Ideas, Interesting

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• One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most intricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex craft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best adaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common sense, and a God-given humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.

  Fred Brooks

  Humility, Men, Race

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• I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.

  Jack Kirby

  Knowing, Life And Death, Done

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

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• Eliminate the word HATE and replace it with LOVE. The words: hate, hatred, hating, haters, hate that, hate this...and so forth. Stop people when they say them. Stop people from expressing any of those words in action. Make the word HATE as old as GROOVY. The word LOVE has been proven to be the most beautiful word. Learn to use it and put it into action - any which way you can.

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Hate, People

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• One point has already been proven. Everything that happened once can happen again.

  Jacobo Timerman

  Happened, Happens

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• Spiritual leadership ought to be given to those who have proven themselves under stress.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Stress, Given

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• Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Character, People

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• As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

  Mark McKinnon

  War, Winning, Tariffs

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• Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

  Noam Chomsky

  Memories, Law, Presumption Of Innocence

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• I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities - I'm proven to be good. I've still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Years, Paper, Toilets

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• The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

  Christian Finnegan

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Facts

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• Were I to stop oil production, we`d have to import it from Iraq and from Caracas, Venezuela or from North Dakota where the environmental standards are much lower, on trains that have already proven themselves unsafe, or by more ships that are causing significant pollution in the world. It`s just really dumb.

  Jerry Brown

  Oil, Iraq, Dumb

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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• In this country your guilty until proven wealthy.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Guilty, Wealthy

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• You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

  Bill Cosby

  Giving, Authority

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• My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

  Henry Rollins

  Understanding, Degrees, Needs

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• People follow proven formulas in any business.

  Phoebe Cates

  People, Formulas

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• It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

  Jaden Smith

  Moving, Years, Childhood

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.

  Bill Gates

  Long, Needs, Development

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• Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

  Stephen Covey

  Principles, Guidelines, Endure

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.36, Mango Media Inc.

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