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"I dont know that the United States is Gods Country, but the church has been so strong here, and because of its influence, we hold life to be sacred and we believe that individuals have dignity. This is part of our legacy."
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back"
"Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy."
"Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it."
"Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on."
"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."
"But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change."
"The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant."
"What you do simply proves what you believe."
"I'm very prescriptive about who I work with. I'm very clear about what I believe. If they believe what I believe I will work with them. If they say things like, "Convince me we should do this." I walk away."
"When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all."
"The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature."
"At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself."
"I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes that is the most interesting career open to anyone. But he also believes that you have to follow your own path in life and so he certainly wasn't going to push me toward theoretical physics when it didn't look like I was going in that direction naturally."
"I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion."
"I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage."
"You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you."
"The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition."
"It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes you pull yourself together."
"I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch."
