"The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original."
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"Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard."
"Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect."
"I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right."
"And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone."
"It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible."
"I'm not trying to prove anything."
"Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not."
"No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong."
"We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues."
"We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it."
"Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
"A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting."
"What, I have actually loved it, because I've been underestimated every step of the way, and it's so exciting when you can prove them all wrong."
"Trivial losses often prove great gains."
"Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that I can say something through film."
"I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything."
"I don't have anything else to prove."
"I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world."
"this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials."