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"I firmly believe that volunteering is good for our society and brings communities together. It's a fantastic opportunity to get involved in your local community, to meet new people and to gain a sense of pride and achievement."
"Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different."
"I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions."
"I really believe I'm right. So, tell me, where am I wrong?"
"I dont believe it wins championships. (It) gets you to the playoffs."
"Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them."
"If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging."
"Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well."
"However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits."
"You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order."
"Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics."
"I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person."
"To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it."
"I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is."
"I'm going to live what I believe"
"If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see."
"Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential."
"I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate."
"Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible."
"(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains."
