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• Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Commitment, Tolerance

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• Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Laughter, Roof Over Your Head

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fear, Men, Imagination

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.

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• You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Believe, Divorce

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• It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Women, Gossip, Pieces

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• People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Believe, Rights

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Creativity, Ignorance

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 5 (1872)

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• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Faith, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

  Bertrand Russell

  Real, Men, Unhappy

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Believe, Media, Addiction

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.521, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.18, Bantam

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• I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

  Graham Greene

  Disease, Caught, Fallen

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Order, Filters

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.119, Penguin

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• If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Confidence, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 23, 2015

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• The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Men, Religion

  1927 The Future of an Illusion.

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• Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.55, Ballantine Books

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• A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

  James Allen

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, A Man Thinketh

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

  Charles Dickens

  Spring, Communication, Winter

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Home, School

  "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.

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• The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Believe, Easy, Ifs

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.2350, Penguin

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• It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

  Lin Yutang

  Believe, Religion, Way

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• By far the best proof is experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Experience, Proof

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• "Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Doubt

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• The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.

  Dean Koontz

  Depth, Embrace, Greater

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.462, Bantam

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