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• Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm... that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.

  James Prescott Joule

  Demand, Genocide, Force

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• Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Lying, Men, Silence

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• I do not believe the accusations against my husband, not for one second.

  Anne Sinclair

  Husband, My Husband, Accusation

  "The Crisis in a Nutshell: 'A Rutting Chimpanzee'" by Will Oremus, www.newyorker.com. May 16, 2011.

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• If people say you shouldn't pursue business around your passion they are haters. Don't believe them.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Passion, People, Pursue

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• We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.

  Michael Polanyi

  Dwelling, Looks, Logical

  Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

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• Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Thinking, People, Soul

  Ann-Marie Macdonald (2010). “Fall on Your Knees”, p.518, Vintage Canada

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• I believe in the Rip Van Winkle theory—that a man from 1910 must be able to wake up after being asleep for seventy years, walk into a ballpark, and understand baseball perfectly.

  Bowie Kuhn

  Baseball, Rip, Men

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• My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how, and Im going to ask each of you to help me to offer all Tennessee children the education they need to energize their God-given talents to take them as far as they can go.

  Phil Bredesen

  Children, Commitment, Unique

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• I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us

  Alice Hoffman

  Fate, Thinking, Trying

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• I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

  Childe Hassam

  Men, Everyday, Paint

  Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam, Jordan-Volpe Gallery (1994). “Childe Hassam: American impressionist”, Te Neues Pub Group

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• I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Suffering, Aggressive

  Konrad Lorenz (2005). “On Aggression”, p.109, Routledge

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• That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

  Fred Thompson

  Cost Benefit Analysis, Law, Agency

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• I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.

  David Markson

  Italian, Looks, Mets

  David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr

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• Some say God is living there [in space]. I was looking around very attentively, but I did not see anyone there. I did not detect either angels or gods....I don't believe in God. I believe in man - his strength, his possibilities, his reason.

  Gherman Titov

  Angel, Men, Space

  "Lower Orbits: Remembering Gherman Titov" by Christine Spillson, therumpus.net. August 3, 2017.

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• Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Struggle, Class, People

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• Love your country and fight for your country. Believe in truth, and that is enough

  Johannes Steinhoff

  Country, Love You, Fighting

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• If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Suffering, Enough, Be Prepared

  Shashi Tharoor (1993). “The Great Indian Novel”, p.48, Arcade Publishing

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• It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?

  Raymond Smullyan

  Taken, People, Favors

  Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.33, Macmillan

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• I believe I can adapt to anything.

  Deron Williams

  I Believe, I Can

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• I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Team, Views, Different

  "CEO Forum: Rosenfeld keeps Kraft from being too cheesy". Interview with David Lieberman, usatoday30.usatoday.com. December 10, 2009.

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• We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them.
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  Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.

  Donna Leon

  Wall, Stupid, Thinking

  "Quietly in Their Sleep". Book by Donna Leon, www.wired.com. May 23, 1997.

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• I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

  Antonio Carlos Jobim

  Song, Beach, Boys

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• Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this power of self addition and re-adaptation, in greater degree than any other religion that the world has even seen, we believe it to be the one immortal faith.

  Sister Nivedita

  Self, Degrees, World

  Sister Nivedita (1915). “Religion and Dharma”

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• I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself. I also believe that energy is habit -- which can be created quite easily. In other words, use your energy and more energy flows and then it is very hard to stop it -- as if one would ever want to!

  Diana Vreeland

  Use, Want, Flow

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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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