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Tag Name "Proving" (164)

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Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.
Ermanno Bencivenga
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Proving people wrong is probably my favorite thing to do.
Zooey Deschanel
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Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.
Richard E. Grant
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Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.
Hippolyte Taine
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The nature of the business is that, once you start proving yourself and the more roles you get, the more exciting the roles that you're able to go out and do auditions for, or that you're being offered, get. You have more choices.
Malin Akerman
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.
Ida B. Wells
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American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.
Margaret Halsey
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The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
Imre Lakatos
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My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.
Marlo Thomas
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I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.
James L. Barksdale
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Peace is not a dream peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.
Jean-Baptiste Say
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I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.
Jeremy Scott
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Being Tigerstar's son has meant I've had to win the trust of every ThunderClan cat over and over. So I know how frustrating it is when you have to prove something that shouldn't need proving.
Erin Hunter
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I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.
Jesse Ventura
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?
Eudora Welty
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I don't care about proving things to people. I'm proving things to myself.
Jon Fitch
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Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
Florynce Kennedy
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By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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