"No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation."
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"In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth moves. Rather, if they realize that they have held a false belief, they should thank those have shown them the truth; and if their opinion stands firm that the earth doesn't move, they will have reason to boast than be angered."
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"I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development."
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"There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured."
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"What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary."
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""Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed.""
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"I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it."
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"As we are, so we see."
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"The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs."
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"There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death."
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"Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist."
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"It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct."
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"The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition."
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"All money is a matter of belief."
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"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."
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"It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing."
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"One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up."
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"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
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"Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you."
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"A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses."
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