"Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it."
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"I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life."
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"To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now."
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"You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal."
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"I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism."
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"I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being."
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"I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity."
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"I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound."
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"Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer."
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"Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore."
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"If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so."
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"I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath."
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"We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland."
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"The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle."
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"Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars."
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"One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form."
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"I expect us to be good; very good. I expect us to first and foremost be better than we were last year and get back to having this franchise as one of the premier franchises on and off the court, and I think we have the opportunity to do that this upcoming season. I really believe that."
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"In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it."
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"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see."
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"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."
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