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• Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

  Jose Padilha

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  In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll’s essays and lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the old testament was degrading to the human spirit.

  Charlie Chaplin

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• The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and wanting to improve it, i.e. model it after his ideal; in him the view that one must deal with the world according to his interest, not according to his ideals, becomes confirmed.

  Max Stirner

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•  What I’ve discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can’t really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  Ian McEwan

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• We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

  Frederica Montseny

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• I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences… essential to that institution’s ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

  Ben Shalom Bernanke

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• In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over.

  Steven Hatfill

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• The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney’s friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said ‘Yes.’

  Conan O'Brien

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• If I’m confirmed, I’ll be myself.

  Samuel Alito

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• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  Vic Snyder

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