"We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that."
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"The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it."
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"Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)"
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"Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs."
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"Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof."
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"Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality."
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"But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?"
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"If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him."
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"A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture"
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"God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures."
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"Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof."
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"Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?"
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"A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition."
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"Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve."
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"Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks."
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"You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom."
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"There will be no proof that I ever was a writer."
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"Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention."
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"The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann."
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"I really believe it's the old cliché, the more you give the more you receive. I'm living proof of that."
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