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• I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, And Love, Needs

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• I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Photography, Believe, Brave

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• I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

  Tod Papageorge

  Photography, Believe, Writing

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• You should be constantly asking yourself: What do I want to say next? What do I believe in? Who am I? What is my image? To be a successful photographer, you have to have a unique point of view otherwise you'll get lost in the mix.

  Mario Sorrenti

  Believe, Successful, Unique

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• I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.

  Josef Sudek

  Believe, Doe, Dull

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• I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

  Clement Attlee

  Believe, People, Liberty

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• The next song I wrote in Paris years ago in a dream. So I didn't really write it, the universe wrote it. And that's what I believe about music, I believe it belongs to the universe, it comes from there and it's this beautiful energy that we share that transcends normal flash existence and that we inspire each other through.

  Serj Tankian

  Beautiful, Dream, Song

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• I believe I'm growing skeptical of cynicism.

  Chuck Lorre

  Believe, Growing, Cynicism

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• Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 01, 2015

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• I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Believe

  The Republicans' first Presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

  Booker T. Washington

  Believe, Race, Done

  Booker T. Washington (2012). “Up from Slavery”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Believe, Technology, Suffering

  Presentation at World Federation of Right to Die Societies, September 24, 1984.

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• I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.

  Robert Treat Paine

  Believe, Manners, Word Of God

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• Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

  Lester Bowie

  Lying, Believe, Internet

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• I feel that I am entitled to take medicinal marijuana. In general, I believe that everyone who has a doctor's prescription is entitled to take marijuana. I, however, do not believe that my day in court should be taken from me, and that's essentially what's happening.

  Peter McWilliams

  Believe, Taken, Marijuana

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• I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren't included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian.

  Jane Fonda

  Christian, Believe, Long

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• I believe Jesus was right, Buddha was right, and all of those people like that are right. They're all saying the same thing -​ and I believe it. I believe what Jesus actually said -​ the basic things he laid down about love and goodness -​ and not what people say he said.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Believe, People

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• I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

  Meredith Brooks

  Believe, Mind, Humanist

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• The real issue relating to exclusiveness is whether or not the Christian actually has a relationship with God, a presence of God, which non-Christians do not have. Apart from Christian spiritual formation as described here, I believe there is little value in claiming exclusiveness for the Christian way.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.

  George Michael

  Believe, Thinking, Speak Your Mind

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• I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you've strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.

  Marilyn Manson

  Believe, Destiny, Way

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• I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . . then I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home . . . If we are not rooted deeply in place, making that commitment to dig in and stay put . . . then I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. Then we enter a place of true desolation.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Home, Commitment

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• The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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• I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Believe, Humans, Human Beings

  Henrik Ibsen (2006). “Four Major Plays”, p.83, Penguin

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• I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?

  Willa Ford

  Believe, Thinking, The End Of The Day

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