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• My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

  Ed Case

  Spiritual, Religious, Etc

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• My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Believe, Thinking

  Robert Anton Wilson (1977). “Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati”, New Falcon Pubns

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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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• Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Light, Substitutes, Seeing

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.91, Macmillan

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• As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do not speak. We are left to believe. Fools, children. Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes.

  Don DeLillo

  Children, Believe, Men

  Don DeLillo (1985). “White noise”, Viking Pr

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• A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Legends, Live By

  Pablo Picasso, Gary Tinterow, Susan Alyson Stein, Magdalena Dabrowski, Christel Hollevoet (2010). “Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, p.110, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

  Noah Taylor

  People, Training, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

  Jenna Elfman

  People, Laughing, Challenges

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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

  James Allen

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, A Man Thinketh

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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 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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• You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Faith, Atheist

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• Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.

  John Mortimer

  Believe, Rumours, Denied

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• It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

  Arthur Lismer

  Art, Believe, Deeds

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

  Max Born

  Truth, Roots, Evil

  Max Born (2013). “Physics in My Generation”, p.143, Springer

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• I believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth.

  Jeet Aulakh

  Art, Believe, Matter

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• The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

  George Henry Lewes

  Age, Desire, Doctrine

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind: The method of science and its application to metaphysics. The rules of philosophising. Psychological principles. The limitations of knowledge”, p.2

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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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