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• If you believe you can read you can

  Lisa McMann

  Believe, Believe You Can, Ifs

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• A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find me on water Purify me through fire Trapped by earth nevermore Air will whisper to you What spirit already knows: That even shattered anything is possible If you believe Then we shall both be free.

  P. C. Cast

  Believe, Fire, Air

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.161, St. Martin's Griffin

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• ...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Struggle, Suffering

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• You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Fall, Sky

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World”, p.352, Random House

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• If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

  Gregory Corso

  Believe, Poet, Saved

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• Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Believe, Matter, Ghost

  Joan Lowery Nixon (2007). “The Haunting”, p.111, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

  Dan Brown

  Stars, Lying, Believe

  Dan Brown (2006). “Angels & Demons Special Illustrated Edition: A Novel”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Wise Women, Ifs

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

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• You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

  John Fowles

  Believe, Talking, Acting

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.

  Sylvia Day

  Believe, Angel, Thinking

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.405, Penguin

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• I can't force you. I can't make you want to survive this." He pulls me against him and runs his hand over my hair, tucking it behind my ear. His fingers trail down my neck and over my shoulder, and he says, "But you will do it. It doesn't matter if you believe you can or not. You will, because that's who you are.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Believe, Hair

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• We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, New York, Business

  Michael Bloomberg's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2004.

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  There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

  Ray Charles

  Believe, Trouble, New Testament

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• I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - if you believe that these things work, you will feel better.

  Simon Cowell

  Believe, Feel Better, Work Out

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

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• I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.

  Bryan Cranston

  Believe, Past, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Bryan Cranston Talks Breaking Bad Season 3 and 4, Total Recall, Drive, Rock of Ages, Larry Crowne & Lincoln Lawyer". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 1, 2011.

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• If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Lost, Unfortunate

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.168, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Opposites, Mind Blowing

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• A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Believe, Problem, Ifs

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.9, Anchor

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• Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can.

  Melissa Marr

  Powerful, Believe, Belief

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• Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

  Juliet Marillier

  War, Believe, Play

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.114, Macmillan

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• Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.30, Bantam

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• But I think it has to do with what you believe about yourself. If you believe you're damned, then you are. But if you don't...

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Thinking, About Yourself

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Mad, Wonderland

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• If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Suicide, Hate, Believe

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• A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.

  B. Traven

  Believe, School, College

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