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  • And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
  • Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
  • They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.
  • Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
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  • Ann Landers Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Arlen Specter As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Bud Grant Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Virgil Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • John Lennon Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Ann Landers Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • André Gide Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Friends are proved by adversity.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bill Mumy From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Peirce Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
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  • Billy Graham God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ''I love you.''
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Emily Dickinson Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
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  • Lord Chesterfield I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Winston Churchill I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alexander Herzen It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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