"The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal."
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"Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate."
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"I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural."
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"I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't."
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"Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time."
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"I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously successful businesses of very quiet, very calculated, calm executors who are confident. You can't be successful without being confident. They believe in themselves. They have their own version of assertiveness ... I think confidence matters and I think other things matter, like I would tell you empathy is probably why I'm more successful than confidence. I'm empathic to the customer, to my business partners, to my employees."
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"I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon."
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"I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating."
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"Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets."
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"You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies."
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"People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen."
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"Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?"
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"What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything."
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"Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off."
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"I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars."
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"What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works."
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"I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery."
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"When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief."
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"The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion."
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"I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature."
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