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"We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us."
"I'm somebody who works within Cambodia, with Cambodians. I work alongside the artists and society to work from within, so that is the focus, and from that I hope everybody who believes in democracy, in certain freedoms, will get louder, will grow their voices."
"I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures."
"I don't believe in ghosts but they blindly believe in me"
"I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do."
"I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down."
"We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake."
"I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one"
"I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure."
"Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?"
"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."
"The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions."
"I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it."
"We believe in a whole-school approach to ICT."
"I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues."
"The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect."
"We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights."
"I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence."
"The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you."
"behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car."
