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• Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

  Douglas Coupland

  Mean, Brain, Twenties

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• To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Strong, Believe, Doubt

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.351

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• Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

  Robert Breault

  Rich, Skepticism, Savior

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• However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Struggle, Long, Triumph

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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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• The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

  Stanislav Grof

  Impact, World, Ethical

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• No victor believes in chance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Believe, Chance

  The Gay Science bk. 3, no. 258 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

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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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• Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

  Albert Claude

  Plato, Yesterday, Today

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• This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

  Shannen Doherty

  Country, Political, Opinion

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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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• 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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• It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

  Robert Teeter

  Hurt, Past, America

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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 think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Thinking, Speaks Out, Needs

  "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.

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• The victory's in believing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Victory

  James Russell Lowell (1898). “Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole”, p.323, Library of Alexandria

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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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• Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

  Hideki Tojo

  Peace, War, Japan

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• The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

  William James

  Order, Space, Biographies

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.50, William James

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• Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

  Charley Pride

  Religious, Organization

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• I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

  James Cash Penney

  Believe, Men, Anchors

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• But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Information, Action, Individual

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• Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

  James Siegel

  Law, Logic, Immune

  James Siegel (2005). “Detour”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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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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• The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

  Mario Cuomo

  Might, Someday, Force

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