"To lead others is to help them change their thoughts, beliefs and actions for the better."
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"I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life."
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"... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it."
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"Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds."
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"[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force."
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"Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more."
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"Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others."
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"Be a good human being, a warmhearted, affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief."
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"The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice."
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"It is my strong belief that Israel has not just the right but the obligation to protect itself."
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"The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles."
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"Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness."
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"The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back."
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"According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time."
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"Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?"
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"Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence."
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"If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us."
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"I believe that all that we go through here must have some value."
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"The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live."
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"Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis."
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