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  • John McCain Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Barry Manilow Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. These things can never be hinderance in the way of man, provided he be a man. You will have the practical proof in the near future.
    Source: Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • George Eliot I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Maris If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Herman Melville If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • William Shakespeare It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Augustus Hare It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Camille Paglia It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Peter de Vries It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Barney Frank It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It's the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ferdinand de Saussure Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
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  • Carson Daly Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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