Quotes with proof

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  • Raymond Chandler The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The proof of gold is fire...
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    English novelist (1835 - 1915)
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  • Brad D. Smith The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bram Stoker There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Augustus Hare There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Ariel Sharon There is no bullet-proof vest in my size.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Seneca There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ann Druyan This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • George Henry Lewes We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
    The phsyiology of common life (1859)
    George Henry Lewes
    English philosopher and critic (1817 - 1878)
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  • John Updike What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Adolf Galland When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Luc de Clapiers When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.
    Luc de Clapiers
    French writer and moralist
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  • Claude Bernard A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
    Claude Bernard
    French physiologist (1813 - 1878)
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