Quotes with shock-proof

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  • Hannah Arendt Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Bob Geldof Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Virgil Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Virgil Fear is proof of a low born soul.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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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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  • Alvin Toffler Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Walter Benjamin Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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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 W. Bush I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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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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  • 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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