"I don't believe in an afterlife, but I'm taking an extra pair of underwear just in case."
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"In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all."
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"All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion."
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"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
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"In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense."
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"I believe in a spiritual world - not as anything separate from this world - but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God."
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"I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth."
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"I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'."
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"There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe — and I do believe — that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction."
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"You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true."
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"I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?"
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"I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man."
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"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius."
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"Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books."
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."
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"The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco."
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"I don't know if I could write ten easy ways to connect with an audience. I know you have to believe in what you're doing, you have to believe in your music, believe in your ability, believe that what you're doing is honest and true and real."
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"To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving."
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"It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi"
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"I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease."
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