"It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living."
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"In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe."
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"I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag."
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"The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said."
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"Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven."
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"We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe."
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"When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live."
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"If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen."
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"I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything."
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"We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain."
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"I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school."
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"Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors."
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"I do feel there are countless people on earth who do not believe in the inner power, the inner life. They feel that the outer strength and the outer life are everything. I do not agree with them. There is an inner life; there is spirit, and my ability to lift these heavy weights proves that it can work in matter as well."
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"True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea."
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"We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace."
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"Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside."
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"I believe every PERSON is beautiful. What you do with that beauty, how you develop it, is up to you."
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"I really do believe that my style is informed by the fact that I had such issues with my appearance at various times of my life."
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"I actually don't prepare for onscreen nudity. I really believe that you have to be comfortable with your own body and unless the role is directed to a certain physicality and you're playing a sports person, then obviously you've got to train for it, but I just try and do things that make me happy and comfortable in my own skin, so I've gotten into yoga quite a lot."
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"I don't believe there's any evidence that credit scoring is a risk factor. What is it about someone having a worse credit score that makes them a worse driver? (Insurers) can't answer that."
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