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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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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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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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That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
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The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
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