Believes Quotes
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The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.
Scott Snyder
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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values.
Ava Gardner
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I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
John Calvin
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Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.
Blaise Pascal
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I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.
Michael Parenti
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar
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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
Moliere
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No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.
Paul Craig Roberts
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The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluations that win the day with administrators.
Michelle Grabner
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
Evan Davis
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Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
Nolan Bushnell
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.
Honore de Balzac
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Sam believes now that people repeatedly collide with each other swiftly, brutally – not to produce children but to shatter their sense of self, and be thrust into a creative space beyond reason, where anything can happen. Only through the destruction of psychological borders is freedom possible.
Barry Webster
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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.
Ethan Nadelmann
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No one, at night, really believes he'll live forever.
Charles L. Grant
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Almost everything that almost everyone believes is wrong.
Andrew Joseph Galambos
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Was Christ God incarnate? Yes, of course, but so are we all. This in no way detracts from the divinity of Christ, who must have been a very advanced incarnation of God. And for those Christians who feel uncomfortable with the notion that we are all incarnations of God, and therefore brothers and sisters of Christ, let me quote John 14:12: “In all truth I tell you, whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I do myself, and will perform even greater works, because I am going to the Father.
Bernard Haisch