"Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness."
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"For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness."
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"Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them."
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"When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in."
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"The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses."
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"Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours."
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"I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history."
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"The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light."
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"Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te moins se feraient e gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit."
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"She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness."
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"I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait."
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"Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness."
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"I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being."
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"And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there."
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"Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore."
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"To interpret, to quote – yet only to have witnesses, also friends."
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"Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]"
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"I have not been the witness I wanted to be."
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