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Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ↗

— William Temple

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There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to. ↗

— Robert Moog

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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. ↗

— Ralph Neas

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On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet. ↗

— Orson Pratt

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Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

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In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment. ↗

— Walther Bothe

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Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, traveling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen. ↗

— Paul Crouch

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A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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