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«I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.»
«It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.»
Author: Max Eastman
(Author, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Humor,
Sense of humor
| Keywords:
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«It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.»
«If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.»
«Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.»
Author: Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
| About:
Ability,
Leadership
| Keywords:
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«Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young and this alone proves that life is a good thing»
«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Humor
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«Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.»
«July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
fourth, Fourth of July, inadequate, in stock, July, July 4, one-fourth, On This Day, PER, per year, proves, put together, stock
«I was married once -- in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
| Keywords:
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