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Belief Quotes
"One can win only if he believes himself to be a winner."
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"It is interesting indeed that some people think they are right to force others into believing what they believe."
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"There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message?"
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"I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just go one god further."
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"Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand."
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"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets - most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth."
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"Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith reveals the possible."
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"Your believability influences your accessibility to possibilty."
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"God is what you imagine him to be."
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"The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists, indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately."
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"Being able to unlock your subconscious mind depends on knowing what you want before you can achieve it."
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"We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all."
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"Belief can convert the mundane into the miraculous."
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"The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness will be followed by another - that a coherent matrix has been prepared for this precious self of ours. The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, of what we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified."
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"In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns."
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"Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them."
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"Belief means not wanting to know what is true."
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"Christ.No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People have called Him different things at different times, but Rachel's sister gave Him a perfectly good name, I think: Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, God of dead things left in the ground, God of rotting flowers in drainage ditches, God of the Mystery."
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"Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!"
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"The foundation of all personal development, actually, is self-acceptance and self-love."
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"It is one thing to believe and another to know."
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"There is no limitation to what you can achieve, if you can believe."
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