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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
Ambrose Bierce

Put, Characters, Trial

Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.
Nicole Polizzi

Career, Said, Wrong

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Ovid

Good, Sorrow, Bear

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Andrew Jackson

Great, Power, Strong

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle

Courage, Team, Coward

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Past, Free, Worthy

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Blaise Pascal

Love, God, Miracles

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

Art, Past, Democracy

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron

Give, Two, Though

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
George Canning

Truth, Except, Statistics

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Jean Paul

Worth, Actions, Mouth

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II

Problems, Wars, Resolve

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Doug Coupland

May, State, Miracle

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.
Christopher Hitchens

Used, Either, View

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
Eddie Vedder

Best, Yourself, Live

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wisdom, Fool, Greatest

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson

Design, Difficult, Easy

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson

True, Two, Before

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
Camille Paglia

Men, Sex, Woman

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God, Existence, Idol

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen

Education, Men, Story

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
E. O. Wilson

Real, May, Small

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
John Shelby Spong

Religion, Truth, Religious

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
Franz Liszt

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.
Edward Norton

Place, Lovely, Anybody

Jesters do often prove prophets.
Joseph Addison

Often, Prophets

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Charles Caleb Colton

Men, Nothing, Often

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.
Rush Limbaugh

War, Country, Speech

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
Ernest Holmes

Time, Determined, Convinced

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
Paul Cezanne

Nature, Truth, Shall

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