#proved

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cannot #come #exists #faith #false

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#approved #before #general #getting #had

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#been #commitment #community #family #family life

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#believed #conscience #friends #guilt #hated

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#being #bluff #camp #come #commanders

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#access #achieved #communicate #every #every time

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#anything #became #being #did #else

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #expense #incurred #parliament #provided

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs. ↗

— John Warnock

#better #care #communication #contributed #food

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#common #deep #discovering #incapable #legislators