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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis."

Believe Book Plato
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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
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"Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens."

Believe Dog Cat
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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer."

Believe Nice Selfish
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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men."

Men Believe Fascism
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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not."

Believe Beautiful Mirrors
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Robert Adams Photographer
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"The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it."

Believe Sight Vocabulary
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Robert Browning Poet, Playwright
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"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception-which is truth. A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Binds it, and makes all error: and to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without."

Believe Wall Errors
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Socrates Philosopher
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"...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover."

Men Believe Fighting
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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
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"An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes."

Believe Belief Achieve
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Stacy London Television Personality
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"I think that the way to have style is to accept where your body is right now, heavier or skinnier, whether you're going to change in the future and dress it as it is. The fact is you can always find clothes. It may be harder for plus sized people, I completely understand that. But I don't believe that it's impossible to dress with style."

Thinking Believe Clothes
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Robert Jordan Author
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"Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered."

Believe Mean Fog
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