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Belief Quotes
"I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas."
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"When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief."
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"Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony."
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"When you believe, the whole world with all of her positive-synchronized power dares to help you."
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"I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?"
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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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"Fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."
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"There is no limitation to what you can achieve, if you can believe."
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"Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be."
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"It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator.The people down here just ate that up!"
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"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."
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"What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some tediously exacting manner? I must confess that I am less likely to believe that it's a matter of some narcissistic demand that I freely pen my own script. Rather, I think it's fear that I'm too inadequate to follow God's."
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"There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it's time to believe the gnawing."
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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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"Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?"
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"If God made gay people, then did God not intend them to be gay? Did the Potter's hand slip?"
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"I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness."
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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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"We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us."
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"I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again."
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"One can win only if he believes himself to be a winner."
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"But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice."
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"Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith reveals the possible."
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"Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement."
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"You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself."
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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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"Anyway, lots of warrior tribes think that when they die, they go to a heavenly land somewhere," said the toad. "You know, where they can drink and fight and feast forever? So maybe this is theirs."But this is a real place!"So? That's what they believe. Besides, they're only small. Maybe the universe is a bit crowded and they have to put heavens anywhere there's room? I'm a toad, so you'll appreciate that I'm having to guess a lot here."
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