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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
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Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
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Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
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Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?
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Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.
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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
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Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
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