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"After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do." »John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56
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"The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment." »Elbert Hubbard
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"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof." »Ashley Montague
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"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." »Gary Zukav
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"If you believe in something, no proof is necessary. If you don't, none is sufficient." »Unknown
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"By far the best proof is experience." »Francis Bacon
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"Absence of proof is not proof of absence." »Michael Crichton
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"The proof of the pudding is in the eating." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof." »G. H. Lewes, Physiology of Common Life
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"The world is proof that God is a committee." »Bob Stokes
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"Women are cursed, and men are the proof." »Rosanne Barr
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"The best proof of love is trust." »Joyce Brothers
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"The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor." »Margo Kaufman
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"Fame is proof that people are gullible." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it." »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation." »D. Elton Trueblood
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"Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof." »Kahlil Gibran
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"A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind." »Thales
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"No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men." »Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840
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"There is a negative proof of the value of Latin No one seems to boast of not knowing it." »Peter Brodie
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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it." »Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855
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"The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us." »Peter De Vries
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"The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it." »Lord Macaulay
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"In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." »Oscar Wilde
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"Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary." »Julius Rosenwald
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