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• Happiness is about being proud of who you are. Be a good friend, be a good daughter, be reliable, be willing to laugh when things get tough, compliment other girls, care about your job, believe in yourself, be vulnerable, tell the truth, apologize when needed, forgive people...

  Erin Foster

  Girl, Daughter, Jobs

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• The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm sure that it isn't man, money, surveys, not talk. They all have their place, but if the basis of all of it isn't fervent, believing prayer, they are in vain. And prayer should not only be the basis but it should permeate and vitalize the whole work.

  William Cameron Townsend

  Prayer, Men, Way

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• I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels that his true immutable essence comes from that invisible realm that offers him an image of reality....I feel that I do not exist in time, but that time exists in me. I can also realize that it is not given to me to solve the mystery of art in an absolute fashion. Nonetheless, I am almost brought to believe that I am about to get my hands on the divine.

  Carlo Carra

  Fashion, Art, Reality

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• Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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• The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One can believe only what one has perceived to be true from reasonable grounds, and consequently one must have the courage to continue doubting until one has found reliable grounds to satisfy the reason.

  Georg Hermes

  Doubt, Principles, Reason

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• Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

  Emir Kusturica

  Country, Integrity, Identity

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• I don't believe we are, because I believe that just as 9/11 was an attack on a very populous area, terrorism also looks to see where you can go and where you're not expected.

  Bob Wise

  Looks, Terrorism, Expected

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• In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Book, Responsibility, Government

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• Remove 'can't', 'won't' and 'shouldn't' from your vocabulary when they restrict attainment. Persevere if you truly believe your cause is just.

  Danny Villanueva

  Vocabulary, Causes, Persevere

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• I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Anger, People, Poverty

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Thinking, Way, Kind

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• We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold—and we do firmly believe and simply confess—that there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Apostolic Church, Catholic, Sin

  "Unam sanctam". Papal bull by Pope Boniface VIII, 1302.

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• I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer.

  Marcellin Berthelot

  Christian, Science, Atoms

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• Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well.

  Alan Wolfe

  Class, World, Vegetarian

  "Republicans: good at theatre, dreadful at governing - as we'll see tomorrow" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2011.

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• Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.

  Jason Ellis

  Greatness, Thinking, Average

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• I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

  Jaime Escalante

  Knowledge, Math, Students

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• I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space any more.

  John von Neumann

  Space, May, Mathematics

  "John Von Neumann: Selected Letters".

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• Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

  Bertrand Russell

  World, Belief, Mathematics

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.38, Routledge

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• You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to walk 6 miles. You have only to apply the same common sense to stones rolling down hillsides, and the calculus is at your command.

  W. W. Sawyer

  Education, Math, Men

  W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Mathematician's Delight”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Years, Coward, Penance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3943, Manonmani Publishers

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• This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?

  Anne Rice

  Disappointment, Children, Lying

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.286, Ballantine Books

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• People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.

  Billy Joel

  Lying, People, Deceit

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• The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

  Phil Ochs

  Lying, Men, Gdp

  Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

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• I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

  Ken MacLeod

  Father, Lying, Devil

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• I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew.

  Joseph Muscat

  Country, Lying, Party

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