- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe Quotes
On conviction, faith and holding a belief through doubt.
The quotes gathered here move between technical foresight, early confidence in where computing was headed, and deeply personal conviction about politics, work and society's assumptions. For more on faith, see our Faith quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I'm in awe.
- Egyptian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country.
- Speech
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a fundamental and culturally learned power imbalance between men and women, and it follows us into the workplace. The violence born of this imbalance follows us also. We would like to believe that it stops short of following us into the laboratory and into the field - but it does not.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that there is good. I believe there is evil. Do I believe that they come from God who is watching us conduct myriad never-ending wars and looks benignly on because there's higher purpose to all of this? I don't think so.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person.
- Fain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the South. Its borders are wide enough for all truly loyal men to find within them peace and repose from the din and discord of angry faction.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that any auteur categorised in terms of an -ist or an -ism wouldn't be able to capture the complex essence of human nature.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I play music, I realize that it filters emotions. I believe that peoples' voices are expressed in their emotions, and I try to do the same with my music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think President Obama wanted to have the right fit for his different cabinet positions, and I believe that experience is what mattered most to him. In my case, I have been working to improve the overall quality of life for working families for most of my adult life, and I think that experience resonated with the president.
- Great Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020