"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."
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"Compound interest is proof of gods existence."
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"If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not."
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"Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about."
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"What you do is proof of what you believe."
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"Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die."
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"The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism."
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"A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text."
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"If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy."
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"Sincerity is always subject to proof."
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"There's no such thing as love; only proof of love."
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"Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs"
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"All proofs rest on premises."
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"It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob."
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"The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is."
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"I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life."
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"The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by."
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"Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill."
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"It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . ."
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"Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person."
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