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• Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.

  Tom Robbins

  Religious, Cozy, Belief

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse - the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level-we rediscover who God is.

  Andrew Cohen

  Passion, Sky, Doubt

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• Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the answer.

  Thomas Campbell

  Reality, Space, Doe

  Thomas Campbell (2003). “My Big Toe: Book 2 : Discovery”, p.336, Lightning Strike Books

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• I think when I started doing stand-up, that's when I really tried to question everything in my belief system which is - I think a pretty important part of being a comedian is really questioning things.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Comedian, Important

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.

  Sarah MacLean

  Hurt, Reality, Belief

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• Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Greeks.....time meandered back and forth between reality and myth.

  Leonard Shlain

  Dream, Reality, Space

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• I know a lot of great success stories of those who were excellent problem-solvers because they had found a need that they could fill well. As a result, they built organizations around them and those organizations had belief systems that could be described as a form of leadership.

  Lewis Schiff

  Organization, Needs, Stories

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a succes.

  Charles de Lint

  Writing, Might Use, Giving

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• If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.

  Donny Deutsch

  Inspirational, Running, Circles

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• Well, I would have to say as a Christian that I believe any belief system, any world view, whether its Zen Buddhism or Hinduism or dialectical materialism for that matter, Marxism, that keeps persons captive and keeps them from coming to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, yes, is a demonstration of satanic power.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "Not to be outdone by Robertson, Mohler claimed that Buddhism, Hinduism, and Marxism are "demonstration[s] of satanic power"". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.mediamatters.org. March 20, 2006.

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• You need to identify the values that come out of that kind of belief system, because I don't see them. All the polls I look at say, for example, that adultery is committed as much in the Bible Belt as in any other part of the country. The same goes for abortion, child abuse, spouse abuse or murder.

  John Shelby Spong

  Country, Children, Abortion

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They just leave that to religions to divert people off into rigid belief systems.

  David Icke

  People, Belief, Mainstream

  "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Everyone has a belief system in his or her mind, a story about the way they think the world actually is, even if they haven't thought about it much or worked out all the details.

  Greg Koukl

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just the idea that once you're captured in a photograph, then a million presumptions are made of you, and you are forever frozen in that one moment, and you are perceived to be the embodiment of that moment, and that, of course, is an illusion.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Believe, Ideas, Forever

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.

  Michael Parenti

  Christian, Fashion, Political

  Michael Parenti (2010). “God and His Demons”

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• I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I dont have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.

  Tom Araya

  Strong, Atheist, Believe

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• This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Religious, Survival

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Religious, Groups, Different

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Growing Up, Believe, Matter

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine the new understanding, and , it it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Knowing, Choices, Understanding

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “The New Revelations: A Conversation with God”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Religious, Mass Destruction, Iran

  "Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, amanpour.blogs.cnn.com. September 25, 2013.

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• It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Belief, Embarrassing, Shallow

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• Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.

  Chevy Stevens

  Book, Character, Coping Mechanisms

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• What a lot of people don't understand is that when you change your thinking, when you accept different concepts, then life mirrors those for you. If you can get the concept that you're worthy and loveable and that you deserve to have a better life, life starts bringing those opportunities to you, because that's your belief system.

  Louise Hay

  Thinking, Opportunity, Mirrors

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

  Myles Munroe

  Systems Change, Belief, Circumstances

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