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• I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.

  Pete Wilson

  Thinking, Right Now

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• It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.

  John Searle

  Believe, Numbers, Effort

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• America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.

  Bill Frist

  Moving, America, Way Forward

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• I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Lying, Fall, Government

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• There's still room for flair and artistry and playing a game that's going to confuse people. Federer has proven that, time and time and time again. Even with the new string technology, which has been around for ten years.

  Darren Cahill

  Sports, Technology, Years

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• If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.56, Penguin

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• If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Believe, Errors, Often Is

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• I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

  Dara Torres

  Maturity, Winning, Dedication

  Dara Torres, Elizabeth Weil (2009). “Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life”, p.216, Three Rivers Press

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• Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem

  Robert Smithson

  Mistake, Mean, Artist

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.

  Peter Joseph

  Understanding, Levels, Awareness

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• An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

  Moshe Sharett

  Action, Problem, Solve

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• I think because I am a proven rookie that it is going to help me in the long run.

  Andrew Bogut

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 8, 2006.

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• Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason. Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain are damaged in some way, we don't just lose the ability to laugh or cry, we lose the ability to make decisions. Alarm bells for every business right there. The neurologist Donald Calne puts it brilliantly: “The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.”

  Donald Calne

  Differences, Laughing, Decision

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• E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea---the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven---to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities. And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0.

  Stephen Downes

  College, Effectiveness, Years

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• At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards.

  Mort Kondracke

  Cutting, People, Beard

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• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

  Barry Manilow

  Break Up, Crazy, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.

  Peter Bodo

  Running, Jeans, Blue

  Peter Bodo (1995). “The Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in a Harsh New World of Professional Tennis”, Scribner Book Company

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• I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Philosophy, May, Has Beens

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• We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Mean, School, America

  Remarks from the NRA press conference on Sandy Hook school shooting, www.washingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe in God than I can believe an invisible monkey lives in my ass; however, I would believe in both if they could be scientifically proven.

  Andrew Davidson

  Believe, Emotional, Would Be

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.344, Canongate Books

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• Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.

  Bob Brookmeyer

  Teacher, Musical Life, People

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• Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.

  Lynda Resnick

  Children, Technology, Apples

  "Five Reasons Americans Can Be Happy" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2009.

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• The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail... You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Government, America, Failing

  New Republic, November 4, 1985.

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• Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, Sticks, Prohibition

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• The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

  Warren Buffett

  Brother, Thinking, Growth

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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