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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
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"It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts."

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Tim Robbins Actor, Director
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"I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself."

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Nancy Reagan Political Figure, First Lady
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"I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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"When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief."

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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them."

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