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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

George Bernard Shaw
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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde
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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. -Virgil
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright
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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. -Sigmund Freud
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Bertrand Russell
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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. -David Hockney
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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? -William Somerset Maugham
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire
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I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in God even when he is silent.

Irish Sayings
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The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us. -Mario Cuomo
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes
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I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.

Chastity Bono
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. -Anne Rice
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It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Muhammad Ali
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We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

Clifton Fadiman
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. -Miguel de Unamuno
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Malcolm Muggeridge
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

John Lilly
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Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger;  not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted. -Francis Quarles
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

Idries Shah
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Laurence J. Peter
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I don't know if I believe in God just as much as I don't know if gravity exists. All I know is that I feel it and I couldn't explain the world without it. -Kate Miller
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I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

Cedric Hardwicke
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence
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You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. -Dr. Robert Anthony
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