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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone. ↗

— Orville Redenbacher

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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

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The team did a superb pitstop. We had steadily improved. ↗

— John Surtees

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The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. ↗

— Colin Powell

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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. ↗

— James Tobin

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