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Neil Gaiman Author
Believe

"You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third."

Believe Running Horse
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Neil Gaiman Author
Believe

"People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe."

Believe Book Lying
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Neil Gaiman Author
Believe

"Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things."

Believe World Children
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Neil Gaiman Author
Believe

"My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid."

People Believe Genre Is
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Neil Gaiman Author
Believe

"I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in."

Believe Giving Creating
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Neil Gaiman Author
Believe

"For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar."

Thinking Believe Liars
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Neil Gaiman Author
Believe

"There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast."

Believe Hysteria Impossible Things
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Believe

"Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn’t change the reality of an emergent scientific truth."

Believe Reality Cherries
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Believe

"If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you."

Believe Smart Doctors
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Believe

"The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know."

Believe Knowing Faith
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Believe

"I believe that the manned space program can engage the public by advancing the space frontier. Every next mission takes you farther out in space than you were before, either technologically or in terms of distance."

Believe Space Distance
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Believe

"I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the end of America. It's a free market and you just put it on. The fact that science has not been on neck-and-neck with it means that people believe science could not compete on that level."

Believe Mean Reality
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Believe

"Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world."

Thinking Believe Taken
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Believe

"Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support faith, everyone goes to it and points to it."

Believe Support Have Faith
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