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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God."

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Robert Adams Photographer
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"C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute."

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"For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes."

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"Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever."

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
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"Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are."

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Stephen King Author
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"Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion."

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