"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
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"That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion."
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"Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that."
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"The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me."
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"Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief"
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"I confused things with their names: that is belief."
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"My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this."
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"A belief is really only a thought that you keep thinking."
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"Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences."
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"Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief."
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"My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that."
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"If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong."
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"We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
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"We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"If you don't believe it you won't understand it."
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"As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions."
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"The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]"
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"The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human."
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"My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing."
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