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  • Rich Cook Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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  • Aristophanes Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Paul Bourget A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
    Paul Bourget
    French writer (1852 - 1935)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Samuel Johnson A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Michael Crichton Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
    Michael Crichton
    American author of science fiction books and film screenplays (1942 - 2008)
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  • Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Edward Vernon Rickenbacker Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
    Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
    American fighter pilot in WW I (1890 - 1973)
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  • Charles Peters Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
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  • Francis Bacon By far the best proof is experience.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Bill Hybels Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Blaise Pascal Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Virgil Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Virgil Fear is proof of a low born soul.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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