Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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Predictions are preposterous.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
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I don't believe in regret.
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Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.
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If my heart is overwhelmed and I cannot hear your voice, I hold on to what is true. I will believe.
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I have other fish to fry.
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Believe in yourself, believe in your future.
