"If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument."
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"We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things."
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"I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking."
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"Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real."
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"Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’"
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"What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture."
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"Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence."
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"We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the center of world oil production were in the South Pacific that the United States would've liberated them anyway. It has nothing to do with the oil, what a crass idea. Anyone with their head screwed on knows that that can't be true."
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"I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change."
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"Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!"
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"To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing."
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"I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."
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"In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That’s why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity."
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"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."
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"We only get what we believe that we deserve. Raise the bar, raise your standards and you will receive a better outcome."
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"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them."
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"Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself."
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"Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away."
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"I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government."
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"Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison."
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