"If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer."
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"I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest."
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"I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection."
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"In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."
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"Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it."
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"Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards."
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"One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!"
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"Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?"
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"The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country."
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"I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line."
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"I don't believe ... global warming is real. Do we have climate change? Yes. Is it a crisis? No. ... Because the science, the real science, doesn't say that we have any major crisis or threat when it comes to climate change."
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"Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different."
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"People don't believe that their actions really and truly are going to make a difference. But kids get it. They know. And they get all excited about the difference they're making."
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"If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?"
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"I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you."
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"Pause and remember - The only person you need to believe in you is - you!"
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"I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe."
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"I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is."
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"I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do."
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"Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me."
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