"The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say."
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"In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt . . . spent billions of public money and created a huge public debt, but by so doing he revived production and brought his country out of the depression. Businessmen, who in spite of such a sharp lesson continued to believe in old-fashioned economics, were infinitely shocked, and although Roosevelt saved them from ruin, they continued to curse him and to speak of him as 'the madman in the White House.' . . . [It's one more] striking example of inability to learn from experience."
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"There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life."
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"I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells."
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"...I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An 'avenging GOD'? One who created Hell for those who don't believe? I thought we were the perfect and holy children of GOD? How could any limits possibly be put upon us? Hell.. really? I'm sorry, but... no. Wrong. You're wrong. That's an insane GOD and therefore not mine. Because, see, GOD would be very sane, don't you get it?"
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"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift."
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"God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make a definite, positive act of commitment and surrender to the love of God. No one can do it for us."
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"All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love."
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"We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners."
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"These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money; and though that is in some ways true, it is also true that, without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won."
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"Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence."
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"You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it."
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"Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land."
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"Behold your world! The judgments you believe just created it."
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"There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy."
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"What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary."
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"The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly."
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"Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?"
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"I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be."
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"If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe."
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