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"Mike Smith - living proof of the need for ejector seats in helicopters."
"Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known."
"Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith."
"When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots."
"A mathematical proof must be perspicuous."
"Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity."
"I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read."
"If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought."
"A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book."
"Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity."
"Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them."
"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God."
"I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one."
"A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things."
"Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever."
"One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived."
"What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation."
"Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege."
"The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible."