One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
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As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
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In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.
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Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
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The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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1 Corinthians 3:4:
For when one says, 'I follow Paul,' and another, 'I follow Apollos,' are you not mere human beings?
(NIV)
For when one says, I belong to Paul, and another, I belong to Apollos, are you not [proving yourselves] ordinary (unchanged) men?
(AMP)
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
(KJV)
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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
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A lot of times when a guy is out who's their best player, it's a proving ground. It's an opportunity for others to show, and that's what they did. We obviously couldn't get enough done.
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Changing one thing for the better is worth more than proving a thousand things are wrong.
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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
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Our Indian said that he was a doctor, and could tell me some medicinal use for every plant I could show him ... proving himself as good as his...
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After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother, but it is n...
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