Paul Erdos Quotes
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If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.
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Fermat said he had a proof.
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There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
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The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
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I went to a gay bar, they wanted proof of sex so I showed them, they said it wasn't enough.
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Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.
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Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:"The question is much too difficult for me".
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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
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While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew.
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Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?
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He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
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The heart is, truly, the source of love. The proof is that if you remove it from someone, they will almost certainly never love again.
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I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.
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Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.
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The point is that you see candidates running in these different kinds of contests. A primary shows you something that's different from a state party convention, which shows you something that is different than what a caucus shows you.
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Another roof, another proof.