"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
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"A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light."
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"Your persistence is your belief in yourself."
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"We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions."
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"Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er.""
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"When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing."
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"Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs"
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"And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you"
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"Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."
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"Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities."
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"The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do."
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"If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go."
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"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
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"I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us."
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"Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought."
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"Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence."
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"My belief is that to have no wants is divine."
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"The only limits of power are the bounds of belief."
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"The thing is to get the work done."
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"Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions."
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