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"Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt."
"I actually think the common anarchist position is that people are fundamentally good, blah blah blah. I don't believe that."
"I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that."
"The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe."
"No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels."
"Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look."
"I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life]."
"After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart."
"I don't believe in pessimism."
"There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine."
"It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers."
"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"
"No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other."
"Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world."
"So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist."
"Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free."
"I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know."
"I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need."
"In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education."
"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
