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• I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.

  Hyman Rickover

  Jobs, Fate, Men

  United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Selected congressional testimony and speeches by Adm. H.G. Rickover, 1953-81”

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• I don't believe in hasty marriages.

  Anna Held

  Don't Believe, Hasty

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• Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, Would Be, Three

  Abraham Lincoln (1842). “An Address Delivered by Abraham Lincoln: Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society at the Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield Illinois, on the 22d Day of February, 1842”, p.12

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• I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Climate, Would Be

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• The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'

  Pat Roberts

  Christian, Atheist, Simple

  "Pat Robertson attacks Hindus as 'demonic'" by Valli J. Rajan, www.sullivan-county.com. July 1995.

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• I want to save lives, including my own, but Cambodians believe we just rent this body. It is just a house for the spirit, and if the house is full of termites, it is time to leave.

  Dith Pran

  House, Body, Want

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• When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Men, Names, Theory

  Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Believe not each accusing tongue,
  As most weak persons do;
  But still believe that story wrong,
  Which ought not to be true!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Stories, Tongue, Weak

  "The Carcanet: a Literary Album, Containing Select Passages from the Most Distinguished English Writers". Book by Nicholas Harris Nicolas, 1828.

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• To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

  Jeremy Collier

  Imagination, Way, Impossible

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.30

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• I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Book, Careers, Voice

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• We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.

  Eduardo Galeano

  People, Answers, World

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.11, NYU Press

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• I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Progress, Departure, Safe

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• Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!

  Moby

  Dream, Liars, Men

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• And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Light, Shining, Truth Is

  Vincent Bugliosi (1992). “And the Sea Will Tell”

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• In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Absence, Conspiracy, Cases

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• A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe only one thing: that by his act he will change the course of history.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Men, Doe, Courses

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

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• You have to do what you believe in.

  Ben Harper

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect. I see us as well as social creatures, and when I began to look back and say, ‘what is the fundamental bottom line for us as social creatures?’I couldn’t believe it because it seemed so hippy dippy, but it was Love. Love is the force that makes us fully human.

  David Suzuki

  Humility, Love Is, Looks

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• I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Technology, Next, Bigs

  "Trumbull's Vision" by Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 01, 1997.

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• You really need to believe that you are on to something important.

  Steve Case

  Important, Needs

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• One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

  Samuel Dash

  Ambition, Knowing, Careers

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• If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.

  Albert J. Nock

  People, Weakness, Criminals

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• A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Player, Men, Thinking

  "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 11, 1930.

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• I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Home, Balance, Desire

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• I don’t think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Moving, Thinking, Space

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