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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise - apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins."

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Langston Hughes Poet, Novelist
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"Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-"

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life."

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"The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it."

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Dorothy Parker Poet, Writer, Critic
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"Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die."

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Bruce Barton Author, advertising executive
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"The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize."

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web."

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!"

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science."

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