#proof

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. ↗

— Harry Browne

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win. ↗

— Carson Daly

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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#feels #mind #praise #reproof #unmerited

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#experience #frequently #her #more #proof

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. ↗

— Maimonides

#books #consider #deceive #hesitate #his

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#authority #connection #experience #faith #feelings