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"One of the most important things we can do right now is empower ordinary working Americans who really do deserve a fair shot in this economy. But I'm not afraid to talk about any issue. But I do believe it is a distraction."
"I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first; not the donors first."
"The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all."
"I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it."
"I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. For Keats, William Shakespeare exemplified negative capability, and I do think it's extraordinary that for all the thousands of pages Shakespeare left behind, we really don't know much about Shakespeare's own personality or opinions."
"If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign."
"I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw."
"I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism."
"An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often."
"Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself."
"If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority."
"Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws."
"A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world."
"If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have."
"The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma."
"I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all."
"Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent."
"I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede in the earthly scheme, because I don't believe that happens. But if I see a really unfortunate person in the street, I do pray, yes, though I suppose it's really more like a mantra to ease my own sorrow."
"I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in."
"I don`t understand a belief that there is an invisible being in the sky who watches over us all the time and keeps score and who throws you in a burning pit. I think that's very limiting, very antihuman. It's the way they devised for helping to control people because if they can make you believe in an invisible man who's going to hurt you later, they can make you believe anything!"
