Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.
– Walter Kaufmann
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- To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
- Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV) – Anonymous
- Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen. – Duane T Gish
- They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it’s lack of originality. – Elizabeth Blade
- That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. – Christopher Hitchens
- With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind – like most historical evidence. – Susan Sontag
- Faith is evidence unseen and never seen, trust is gained from evidence seen and understood. – Gary J Spaulding
- The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence – Mantra
- There is no evidence to suggest that God helps people. There is, however, ample evidence that people can help themselves and each other. – Armin Navabi
- Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends. – Dwight D Eisenhower
- Affirm and acclaim 120 years of blessed life from the Creator. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney – Seamus Heaney
- If someone believes in god, is he a liar? He never saw god or any proof or evidence of god. He only heard about god. – Debasish Mridha
- Don’t even try making out I’m making this up. I’ve got proof. Evidence. – Diane Samuels
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- The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. – Ashley Montagu
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- We are quick to surrender that which we deem as long dead, when God is quick to restore that which He deems as never really having lived. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Slow-slow-quick-quick-slow went her heart.-œDamn, I love the tango,- he whispered, tickling her ear. – Ophelia London
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- Just sayin’ you got a hot nature, little girl. Quick to anger, quick to lust. Some people are just like that – hot-blooded. – Evangeline Anderson
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- This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance. – Phindiwe Nkosi
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- Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one. – Milan Kundera
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