#prove

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it. ↗

— Johann Most

#christians #disease #god #heal #improve

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#axioms #be true #believe #comes #feel

Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#accurate #accurate information #areas #benefit #best

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#anything #asylum #casual #does #lunatic

When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#always #community #compassionate #eagerness #fallen

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#because #between #big #cannot #constant

If a war be undertaken... before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime. ↗

— Charles Eliot Norton

#before #crime #defense #national #peace

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be. ↗

— Edward Norton

#anything #i #lovely #place #prove

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#benefits #consciously #good #gratitude #happen

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#board #by the time #canada #dead #difficult