Quotes 61 till 80 of 125.
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Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.
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Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
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Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
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On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof.
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Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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