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Jeremy Lin Professional Basketball Player
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"I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody."

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May Sarton Poet
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"One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are."

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Plato Philosopher
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"Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?"

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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author
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"One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
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"To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself."

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