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Belief Quotes
"A flower can only grow through concrete if it believes in itself, not its obstacles."
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"You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing."
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"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."
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"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."
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"The strong belief can make things out of imagination.But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales."
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"You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day."
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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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"One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is that 40 percent of the US population does not see why it is a problem, since Christ is returning in a few decades. About the same percentage believe that the world was created a few thousand years ago. If science conflicts with the Bible, so much the worse for science. It would be hard to find an analogue in other societies."
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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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"We live in a thought-suggestive Universe. The sky's the limit. Believe and you'll receive."
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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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"Beliefs are the umbrella that we use to protect ourselves on rainy days."
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"The only one that believes in you, is you. Don't lean on how others see you to find belief in yourself."
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"Scientism and godism are superstitions, one blindly believes in what's visible, the other blindly believes in what's invisible."
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"A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right."
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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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"Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position."
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"The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all."
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"I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist."
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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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"Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What's worse is that he is now running amok."
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"Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you!"
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"Humanized gods are too small to captivate my imagination, or be worthy of my fullest allegiance."
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"Haven't you got any romance in your soul?' said Magrat plaintively. 'No,' said Granny. 'I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference."
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"I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman."
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"Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude that has never again left me."
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"If you still believe in magic, you're subject to enchantment."
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"Going after what I believe in."
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"[H]e had heard of, but given little credence to, magic. There was always someone talking of folk remedies and charms, but it seemed to him the inclination of fools misunderstanding chance."
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"If ever the adventure proves tiring, or you lose sight of your dream, look to the west at sunset. There, on days when the skies are clear, you might see upon the horizon a thin layer of amber mist. When it appears, you will know its purpose: it is the mist of believing."
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