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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Believe

"This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet."

Believe Spiritual Emotional
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Believe

"In the past even scientists have been led to believe that only human beings have thoughts or emotions. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth... After all, thoughts and emotions have evolutionary value."

Believe Past Emotion
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Elizabeth Warren Politician, Lawyer
Believe

"There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color...We must fight back."

Believe Children Fighting
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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
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"I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, "Put that thing there so I can crush it."

Men Believe Crush
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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
Believe

"I believe one day a 'ban on gay marriage' will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us."

Believe Gay Speaks Out
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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
Believe

"I look at anything in nature and how things work - the stars, the pyramids - and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of design to it all. There's got to be something big that we don't understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That's my faith."

Believe Stars Jesus
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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
Believe

"I prefer to believe that people are good and honest and respect me enough to tell me the truth. It's not easy to find those people all the time, but they're out there."

People Believe Honest
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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
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"But I do believe that's when you do your soul-searching. I think when you have these trials that life gives you, it is an opportunity to find out who you are. Not just who you are when everything's great, but who are you when everything is taken away from you and you have nothing."

Believe Opportunity Taken
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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
Believe

"There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love."

Believe Names Design
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Eloisa James Author
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"I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me."

Believe Light Morning
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Elsie de Wolfe Interior Designer
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"This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe."

Believe Home Sorry
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Emily Barton Author
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"I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about it when I do - I think that there's always the challenge of believing in yourself enough to get the work done and not being so taken with yourself that you're unwilling to continue to work on the work."

Believe Writing Taken
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Emily Bronte Poet, Novelist
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"And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!"

Believe Heart Hair
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Emily Lloyd Artist
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"I am fighting this. I want to get better, I want to work again. I do believe we are architects of our destinies, but with me somewhere along the line something came loose."

Believe Fighting Destiny
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe."

People Believe Tolerance
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