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"We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life."
"Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through."
"I believe that if we stop talking at one another and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done."
"Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one."
"It is done to you as you believe."
"I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running."
"I had to overcome many things, many people telling me no. If you want it, and you believe in it, you have to do it. And I know it’s silly, and I know I’m kind of irrationally optimistic, but you have to be and you can’t really have another plan, because you’re going to fall back on it."
"I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it."
"You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players."
"Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare."
"Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith."
"The difference between those who do and those who don't is that those who don't believe it when they are told they can't."
"That's my motto. That's what I stand by. That's what I believe in. Just continue to tell yourself 'why not?' Continue to strive and make the right play to help your team win."
"I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers."
"Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free."
"I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself."
"I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street."
"I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects."
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
"In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not believe this, but I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything."
