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"He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible."
"There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief."
"We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that."
"I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest."
"One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended."
"I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand."
"The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion"
"When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing."
"Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing."
"For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of Moses are inspired. Call it divine. I don't know. But I would certainly call it inspired."
"You'll also need to invest in yourself with the kind of promo that targets your specific audience to help build that word of mouth. Most importantly, believe in what you're doing and in your music and lyrics."
"Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things."
"I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair."
"Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake."
"I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint."
"I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good."
"I don't know who this quote is by but the friends that you can call at 3am are the ones that really count and I am lucky that I have a few of those. So, I just drew on that and the people who believe in me as they lift you up. It's really important to have people around you that do that."
"Anyone who's making a huge impact or speaking out about what they believe in or who's brave enough to be themselves is a superhero to me."
"I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live."
"I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism."
