"A flower can only grow through concrete if it believes in itself, not its obstacles."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Belief, Flower, Concrete

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"A flower can only grow through concrete if it believes in itself, not its obstacles."

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"We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community."

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"It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs."

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"A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'."

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"Beliefs can be dangerous viruses that can infect and affect a whole society, a country, and even a whole world."

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"I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die - I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created-but I believe there has to be something."

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