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"Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings."
"I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people."
"I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
"Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic."
"I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ]in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim [Burton]."
"Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt"
"Peter was the only one who walked on water besides Jesus, but he was also the only one who got out of the boat. Until you make a decision to believe, and then act on it, nothing will happen."
"I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures."
"I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it."
"I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem."
"Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly."
"A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will."
"Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic."
"Let's stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let's not be afraid that our different colors make us different people. Who cares? It's just a lie, and we don't have to believe all the lies and superstitions that control our lives."
"I am NOT fighting for Muslims, believe me, when I demand Pakistan."
"What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues."
"I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe."
"Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved."
"It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence."
"I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another."
