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  • Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it? -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations. -- Winston Churchill
  • Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. -- Bertrand Russell
  • In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief. -- Georg Simmel
  • At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on. -- Hermann Maier
  • Always verify quotations! -- Martin Routh
  • I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment -- Steve Albini
  • How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word? -- Randy Alcorn
  • Anything that is western origin, first you verify it, then accept it. Anything that is Indian origin, first accept it, then verify it if necessary. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. -- Denis Diderot
  • Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time? -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. -- Morris Graves
  • To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all. -- Carlos Castaneda
  • The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time! -- George Bernard Shaw
  • One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection. -- Roger Rosenblatt
  • So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol. -- Allen West
  • If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring. -- David Halberstam
  • In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
  • The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely. -- Bertrand Russell
  • Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements. -- Agnes Repplier
  • We will ensure that E-Verify is used to the fullest extent possible under existing law, and we will work with Congress to strengthen and expand its use across the country. -- Donald Trump
  • Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living. -- David Baldacci
  • E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes. -- Adam Hasner
  • Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan
  • Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter. -- Zach Woodlee
  • Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. -- Steve Albini
  • When somebody asks for a favor involving information, if you don't know him or can't verify his identity, just say no. -- Kevin Mitnick
  • We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period. -- George Tenet
  • Ronald Reagan said, 'Trust, but verify.' President Obama is 'trust, but vilify.' He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him. -- Mike Huckabee
  • I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. -- Morris Graves
  • Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
  • It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter. -- Persis Khambatta
  • Whether someone wants to learn the words to a new Lady Gaga song they heard on the radio or to verify the lyrics to 'Blinded by the Light', the LyricWiki community delivers. -- Gil Penchina
  • Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  • Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
  • We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing. -- Mitchell Baker
  • Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low. -- Stephen Hawking
  • You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of stories seems overweeningly appealing to a reader with a certain set of sensibilities, and it shouldn't.' -- Jill Abramson
  • In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
  • If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring. -- David Halberstam
  • The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify. -- Katherine Paterson
  • It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says. -- Jan Brewer
  • Don't trust, just verify. -- Steven Levitt
  • Always verify your references. -- Martin Routh
  • Doverey, no proverey - Trust but verify. -- Ronald Reagan
  • The references you do not verify are the good ones. -- Charles Peguy
  • I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify. -- David Hoffman
  • Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life. -- Ramakrishna
  • You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir. -- Martin Routh
  • When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious. -- James Cook
  • To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience. -- Gaston Bachelard
  • The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his . -- W. C. Fields
  • True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot -- William James
  • God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life. -- Pope John Paul II
  • Google "Donald Trump Iraq." And you will see the dozens of sources which verify that he was for the invasion of Iraq. -- Hillary Clinton
  • We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time! -- Lawrence M. Krauss
  • Ronald Reagan said "trust, but verify." President [Barack] Obama is "trust, but vilify." He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him. -- Mike Huckabee
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  • We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express. -- A.J. Ayer
  • For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation. -- Martin Lindstrom
  • My goal is not to resolve conflicts and tensions in the region through more war. My goal is to make sure that, you know, we are able to negotiate a deal that we can verify. -- Barack Obama
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