"It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print."

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"It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print."

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"Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief the more will reality and the world go forth from it."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Belief, Reality, World, Strength

"Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you!"

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Belief, Self, Identity, Influence

"Belief is not subject to the will. Men think as they must. Children do not, and cannot, believe exactly as they were taught. They are not exactly like their parents. They differ in temperament, in experience, in capacity, in surroundings. And so there is a continual, though almost imperceptible change. There is development, conscious and unconscious growth, and by comparing long periods of time we find that the old has been almost abandoned, almost lost in the new."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Belief, Growth, Development, Observation

"All beliefs are equally valid."

Alaric Hutchinson, American Author

Belief, Equality, Truth, Perspective

"So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Belief, Irony, Faith, Superficiality

"Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Belief, Ignorance, Miracles

"I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas."

J.D. Salinger, American Politician

Belief, Childhood, Memory, Reflection

"One can win only if he believes himself to be a winner."

Sardar Patel, Indian Statesman

Belief, Self-belief, Success, Motivation, Mindset

"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Belief, God, Warning, Power

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"Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us."

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"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."

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"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."

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"I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here."

Music

"I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected."

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"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."

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"The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too."

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