Quotes with belief

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  • Joyce Carol Oates The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Bridget Riley There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
    The Eyes Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 (2009)
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Abdul Kalam This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Cyril Connolly Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Alexis Carrel Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Nathaniel Branden To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • A. Alvarez Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
    A. Alvarez
    English poet, novelist, essayist and critic (1929 - 2019)
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  • Adam Clayton Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Adam Clayton Powell Unless man is committed to the belief that all of mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Walter Lippmann We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Archibald Macleish We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Carl Levin We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Carmen Kass We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.
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  • Barbara Jordan We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Angela Davis We have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Karl Popper We may admit that our groping is often inspired, but we must be on our guard against the belief, however deeply felt, that our inspiration carries any authority, divine or otherwise.
    Karl Popper
    Austrian-British philosopher and professor (1902 - 1994)
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  • Barbara Jordan We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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