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• Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Liberty, Libertarian

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (2002). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Women, Positivity

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Age

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Positive, Strength, Inspiring

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• One needs to be right before getting righteous.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Needs, Righteous

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• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Believe, Ignorance, Butterfly

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• I don't believe in the landscape.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Believe, Landscape, Don't Believe

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Art, Art And Culture, Culture

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• Men willingly believe what they wish.

  Julius Caesar

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Julius Caesar “Commentaries on the Gallic Wars”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson

  Ann Brashares

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• You are given the gifts of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs.

  Jane Roberts

  Law Of Attraction, Reality, Given

  Jane Roberts, Seth (Spirit), Robert F. Butts (1994). “The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.436, New World Library

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• A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Frederic W. Farrar (2003). “History of Interpretation: Bampton Lectures, 1885”, p.16, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Risk, Tests

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

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• It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Believe

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2010

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• Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Apology, Atheism, Faults

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• What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Believe, Thinking

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• You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

  Deepak Chopra

  Age, Links, Body

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 13, 2011

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• Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

  Carol P. Christ

  Years, Beliefs And Values, Values

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• Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Statistics, Unbelief

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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  The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Men, Evil People

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 4 (1911)

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• Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Believe, Heartache, Expectations

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.147, Conari Press

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• Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

  Ernest Holmes

  Prayer, Love Life, Feelings

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.23, Penguin

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  A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

  David Hume

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

  1748 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, section 10, pt.1.

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• Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

  Peter Ustinov

  Friendship, Cute Relationship, Sweet

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 5

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