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In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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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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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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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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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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On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience. ↗

— Maria Monk

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There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed. ↗

— Mario Monti

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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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