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"I believe in evolution and I think when it comes to business and the roots of business and the fundamentals of business, I don't think that ever changes. I think the idea of change is an illusion, but in nature it's necessary to change and perhaps business is a part of nature. I'm not totally sure."
"I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view"
"You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door."
"So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and for a very long time the superior and dominant sex."
"I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country."
"I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?"
"Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet."
"I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings."
"Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind."
"The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts."
"The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible."
"I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints."
"If you don't believe in the living dead, how do your explain the Golf Channel?"
"As hard as I try to live with some degree of faith in my life, I just can't believe that the full moon can turn dude into a wolf."
"I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this."
"Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral purpose, that it warns, rebukes, comforts, foretells the future, etc. If one believes that the unconscious always knows best, one can easily be betrayed into leaving the dreams to take the necessary decisions, and is then disappointed when the dreams become more and more trivial and meaningless...The unconscious functions satisfactorily only when the conscious mind fufills its task to the very limit."
"I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics."
"There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely."
"I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs."
"...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence."
