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• I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.

  David Hoffman

  Arguing, Slogans, Hard

  "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

  George Tenet

  America, Als, Authority

  "George Tenet: At the center of the storm". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. April 25, 2007.

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• When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them - without distortion which would mar their exact significances - into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Men, Expression

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• Always verify quotations!

  Martin Routh

  Quotations

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• When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

  James Cook

  Missing, Mind, Trying

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• The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

  Jean Piaget

  Education, Creativity, Science

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• The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

  Margaret Fuller

  Science, Men, Connections

  Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”

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• Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.

  Ramakrishna

  Life, Inspirational Life, Want

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• For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

  Adolf Hitler

  Greek, Historical, Sake

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• We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to make sure that employers that want to cooperate have a system whereby they can verify the employment status of a person that they are seeking to hire. It is part of a comprehensive initiative in which we look both at the border, at the workplace, at criminal aliens, in an attempt to have a comprehensive effort aimed at stopping illegal immigration while at the same time promoting legal immigration according to principles of due process.

  Janet Reno

  Effort, Trying, Principles

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• It's all about who gets to work and making sure they're legally present in our country. And to do that nationally E-verify becomes a key component. It certainly needs to available, effective and as inexpensive as possible and that employer needs to use it as a tool. Some of the arguments that are made about how it works or does not work don't carry much water with me. I've already used it for several years. It works.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Keys, Years

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• Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

  C. S. Lewis

  Philosophy, Mean, Doe

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

  David Baldacci

  Men, Age, Who Cares

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Whole Truth”, p.213, Pan Macmillan

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• Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Thinking, Past, Care

  "Curbing Nuclear Proliferation: An Interview with Mohamed ElBaradei". Interview with Miles Pomper and Paul Kerr, www.armscontrol.org. October 21, 2003.

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• The references you do not verify are the good ones.

  Charles Peguy

  Discipline, Self Discipline

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• What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

  Mark Twain

  Schedules, Crafts, Landscape

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• Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Real, Love Is

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• Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy; he has to verify it for himself.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Effort, Energy

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• True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

  William James

  Truth, Ideas

  Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 6 (1907)

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• Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Blessed, Discipline

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• It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says.

  Jan Brewer

  Mean, Law, Police

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• Doverey, no proverey - Trust but verify.

  Ronald Reagan

  Presidential

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• The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Successful, Thinking

  "2000 - part two" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2000.

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• Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.

  Peter Watts

  Wise, Intelligent, Analysis

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.32, Head of Zeus

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• I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power]. Were it necessary to verify this experience by particular proofs, they might be multiplied without end. I might find a witness in every citizen who has shared in, or been attentive to, the course of public administrations.

  James Madison

  Administration, Citizens, Might

  "Federalist No. 48. These Departments Should Not Be So Far Separated as to Have No Constitutional Control Over Each Other" by James Madison, www.congress.gov. February 1, 1788.

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