#prove

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. ↗

— Steve Allen

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I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that. ↗

— Luther Allison

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The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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I still look at myself and want to improve. ↗

— David Beckham

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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

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We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth. ↗

— Mac Barnett

#detectives #middle-grade #proverbs #quips #sayings

You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website. ↗

— Dave Davies

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