"Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters."
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"I think whatever you believe in affects whatever you express, whatever you create. It shapes your morality in some way. But I don't think that's something that you have to shove down people's throats. I'd rather keep it in the background, and I'd rather people came to the music in an unprejudiced way. I'm glad, in a sense, that most people don't know about me, what I do, much. I'd rather they hear the music, and then say, "I wonder what kind of person created this.""
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"Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong."
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"I don't believe in God. ...I hope he doesn't hold that against me."
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"I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes."
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"There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses."
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"Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them."
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"I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him."
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"I don't believe in regret."
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"Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine."
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"I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'."
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"I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance."
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"I believe all literature started as gossip."
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"I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK."
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"When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up."
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"Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times."
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"Courage isn't inside; it's external. It comes from someone else telling you they believe in you."
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"You have to write a book because you believe it has helped you, because you believe it has helped others personally and you are dying to share with it others because you know it will add value to their lives. You write it for them like a gift. You don't want anything from them. You don't want them to do anything for you. You don't even care if they all share the book with their friends, they don't all have to buy them. You're just dying to share this idea with people. Your challenge is to write it in a way that is compelling, enjoyable to read so that they will get the idea."
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"Organizations should say and do the things they ACTUALLY believe."
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"When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges."
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