"I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals."
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"Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed."
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"Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon."
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"I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good."
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"If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams."
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"Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress."
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"We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made."
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"For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make."
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"All wrong conduct is based on wrong believing"
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"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
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"And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah."
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"I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . ."
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"I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation."
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"I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow."
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"I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it."
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"I do not believe in collective guilt."
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"As for discipline—it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you."
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"We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character."
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"Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything."
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"But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons."
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