Quotes with proving

  • In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

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  • E. B. White I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
    Ben Nighthorse Campbell
    American Cheyenne politician (1933 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bill Bryson In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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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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  • Ben Simmons People say a lot of things about LeBron, but he just keeps having a good mentality and grinding. That's what I try to do, proving people wrong by what I do on the court.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Calvin Harris The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Blaise Pascal When we are accustomed to use bad reasons for proving natural effects, we are not willing to receive good reasons when they are discovered.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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