"Taste has no system and no proofs."
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"To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage."
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"I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one."
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"There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market."
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"So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God’s proof to you sent already to indicate that it’s yours. You already have it. Claim it."
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"We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government."
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"Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner."
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"Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics."
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"Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning."
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"The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best."
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"The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord."
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"It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries."
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"... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading."
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"All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them."
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"Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals."
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"When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots."
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"God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist."
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"Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me."
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"I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs."
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"Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof."
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