#proof

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#both #deficit #deficit reduction #dictates #fairness

The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

#children #conduct #god #our #proof

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#analysis #another #fact #final #final analysis

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#could #fully #himself #i #never

An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this. ↗

— Hans Frank

#executive #many #police #powerless #proofs

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#become #i #pope #proof

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#am #believer #eminem #firm #firm believer

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. ↗

— Annie Besant

#believe #denial #experience #given #limited

I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting! ↗

— David Sedaris

#brueghel #museums #proof #art

If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes. ↗

— Idries Shah

#have-a-care #knowledge #proof #beauty