"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."

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"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."

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"The first direction of a prayer: believe that God is able to manage your problem and appeal to Him."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Trust, Prayer, Belief, Faith, Hope

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Trust, Mistrust, Future, Past

"God is the guarantee of our security."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Trust, God, Security, Faith

"Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Trust, Clouds

"God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Trust, Complaints, Dedication, Faith, Gratitude

"Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

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"I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Trust, Gratitude, Support, Help

"Trust. And be trusted."

Richie Norton, American Author

Trust, Betrayal, Risk, Relationship

"You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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Explore more quotes by Walter Lippmann

"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."

Nature

"Industry is a better horse to ride than genius."

Genius

"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."

Man

"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."

Philosophy

"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."

Freedom

"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."

Truth

"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."

Man

"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."

Science

"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."

Party

"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems."

Soul