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I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. ↗

— George Byron

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

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It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

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Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

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