"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."
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"The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
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"Understand that all emotions serve you. Those you once thought of as negative emotions are merely calls to action. For example, if you feel frustrated it means that you believe things could be better, and they're not. This is a call to action telling you there's something you must do to make this better now. This "negative" emotion is actually a gift if you use it effectively."
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"I truly believe we all have a sleeping giant within us. Each of us has a talent, a gift, our own bit of genius just waiting to be tapped. It might be a talent for art or music... a special way of relating to the ones you love. It might be a genius for selling or innovating.... I choose to believe that our Creator doesn't play favorites, that we've all been created unique, but with equal opportunities for experiencing life to the fullest."
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"Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel."
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"We really didn't talk a whole lot about relationships. I believe I asked if he had ever been married, and he said no."
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"There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep."
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"I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected to happen in order for us to realize that everything was expected. It's our relation to those things that we are able to decide how we feel and the level of intensity of those feelings. Such is relativity"
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"Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success."
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"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
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"Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves."
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"What is a company that believes in good, clean family entertainment doing making R-rated pictures."
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"There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing."
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"I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids."
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"Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know."
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"There are three sides to every coin (Heads, Tails, and The Edge). Your ability to understand contrasting points of view and your ability to glean what information you believe to be valuable from each side is a crucial skill."
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"Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science."
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"All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of."
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"No one will believe in you until you believe in you."
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"Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative."
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