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What is now proved was once only imagined. -- William Blake
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. -- George Orwell
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. -- Galileo Galilei
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. -- Colin Powell
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. -- Albert Einstein
People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed. -- Ray Davies
I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success. -- Robert Falcon Scott
Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt. -- Christopher Hitchens
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.' -- Billy Graham
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We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. -- John Searle
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish. -- Demosthenes
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. -- George Mason
I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong. -- Antony Beevor
A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing. -- Kellin Quinn
Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling. -- Kevin Spacey
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. -- Walter Scott
Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation. -- John Spratt
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. -- John Lennon
I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format. -- Paul Keating
Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends. -- Beth Ditto
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again. -- Terry Pratchett
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
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. -- Martin Jacques
I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well. -- Magic Johnson
Friends are proved by adversity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reagan proved deficits don't matter. -- Dick Cheney
Nothing is proved, all is permitted. -- Theodore Dreiser
The Eighties proved we don't need liberals. -- Rush Limbaugh
Algebras are geometric facts which are proved. -- Omar Khayyam
Many a healthy reaction has proved fatal. -- Humphrey B. Neill
Love is proved in the letting go. -- Cecil Day-Lewis
Love needs to be proved by action. -- Therese of Lisieux
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent! -- Bette Davis
Truth is that which cannot be proved false. -- Dick Morris
Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be -- Elizabeth I
Even things that are true can be proved. -- Oscar Wilde
You have proved it is a very moral habit. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy. -- Susan Faludi
I don't fight for bragging rights. I've proved myself. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Silver Linings' has proved a golden opportunity for me. -- Anupam Kher
Recently we received an invitation that proved just that. -- Brandon Stanton
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective. -- Moshe Dayan
Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved. -- Frederick Buechner
Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail. -- Frances Ridley Havergal
A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often. -- George Bernard Shaw
Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years. -- Edward Abbey
People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong. -- Kate Bush
That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A great deal more is known than has been proved. -- Richard P. Feynman
Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved. -- Emily Post
Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible. -- Paul Dickson
Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult. -- Louis Leakey
Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance. -- Martin Mayer
Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience. -- Muhammad Abduh
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable. -- Leo Burnett
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude. -- Simone de Beauvoir
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem. -- Alan Perlis
The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money... -- Doug Bandow
Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable -- Leo Burnett
Fidelity is a virtue which should be frequently proved, but not always -- Omar Sharif
Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea. -- David Price
Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ? -- Jacques Hadamard
People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could. -- Gertrude Ederle
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. -- Martin Luther
Uriah proved to be a better man drunk than David was sober. -- Johnny Hunt
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Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often. -- George Bernard Shaw
It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours. -- Louis Rukeyser
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. -- Ann Landers
Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. -- Ann Landers
I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think. -- Craig Ferguson
I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize. -- Christopher Hitchens
On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning. -- Mao Zedong
The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure. -- Helen Keller
History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. -- Charles Lamb
I got an A in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist. -- Judy Tenuta
Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go. -- Cecil Day-Lewis
Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty. -- Barry Goldwater
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method. -- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics. -- Anthony James Leggett
You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine. -- Tim Minchin
Loose and jocular, Stanley proved to be a master at relating to nightclub audiences -- Joel Selvin
A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn. -- Paulo Coelho
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral. -- Moon Unit Zappa
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses. -- John Keats
Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government. -- Walter Lippmann
Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end. -- Lord Byron
Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved. -- Robert Shapiro
Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return. -- Petra Kelly
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. -- Herman Melville
The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. -- Rupert Murdoch
Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved. ? -- Camille Paglia
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn. -- Joe Whitney
Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson. -- Chet Faker
Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy. -- Michio Kaku
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. -- Andre Gide
I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God. -- Homer
Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead. -- Billy Graham
Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to. -- Shannon L. Alder
For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved. -- Cyprian
Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong. -- George Bernard Shaw
Yes, we can do business in Nepal and still succeed. That is what I proved. -- Binod Chaudhary
Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative. -- Albert Einstein
Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win. -- John Baldacci
Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it. -- Siddharth Katragadda
Not one single scandal that Hillary Clinton has been accused of has ever, ever been proved. -- Thomas Roberts
The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue. -- Hjalmar Schacht

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