"The only limitations man has are the ones he sets for himself."
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"Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all."
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"The first belief we must have if we're going to create change quickly is that we can change now."
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"What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit."
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"For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label."
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"The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief."
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"This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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"Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom."
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"I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary."
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"Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief."
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"The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth."
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"I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling."
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"A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones"
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"All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties."
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"God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe."
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"What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while."
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"Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
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"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."
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"Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular."
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"Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be"
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