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«Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | Keywords: faced, proving
«Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages»
«As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke (Writer) | About: Mankind | Keywords: destroying, proving, unstable
«False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.»
«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.»
«But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests? / But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: amazed, confounded, hither, proving
«For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: / (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) / Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: proving
«HEAT, n.Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode Of motion, but I know now how he's proving His point; but this I know --hot words bestowed With skill will set the human fist a-moving, And where it stops the stars burn free and wild._Crede expertum_ --I have seen them, child. --Gorton Swope»
«Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.»
«Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.»