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The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: 'that God governs in the affairs of men.' And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? – Benjamin Franklin	added by Normando 3 months ago
[ The Rolling Stone cover ] was something that we feared for a long time, we saw The Rolling Stone cover -RSB- and we got the proofs back from the photographer and I remember thinking,' We could be really screwed here.' I remember being in Rolling Stone decision and Rolling Stone decision was really tense... Rolling Stone decision was Rolling Stone decision [ to publish the cover ]. – Rey Roldan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. – James Madison	added by Normando 4 years ago
Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible. – Archimedes	added by acronimous 4 years ago
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country. – Lewis Lapham	added by anonymous 8 years ago
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. – Roland Barthes	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive. – Raymond Chandler	added by anonymous 10 years ago
All proofs rest on premises. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. – William Hazlitt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . . – Antoine Laurent Lavoisier	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: 'that God governs in the affairs of men.' And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

– Benjamin Franklin

added by Normando
3 months ago

[ The Rolling Stone cover ] was something that we feared for a long time, we saw The Rolling Stone cover -RSB- and we got the proofs back from the photographer and I remember thinking,' We could be really screwed here.' I remember being in Rolling Stone decision and Rolling Stone decision was really tense... Rolling Stone decision was Rolling Stone decision [ to publish the cover ].

– Rey Roldan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

– James Madison

added by Normando
4 years ago

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

– Archimedes

added by acronimous
4 years ago

Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

– Lewis Lapham

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

– Roland Barthes

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

– Raymond Chandler

added by anonymous
10 years ago

All proofs rest on premises.

– Aristotle

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

– William Hazlitt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be. . .

– Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

– Henry Louis Mencken

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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