- Curiosities
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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
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the quickest and most sure way to reduce poverty, raise living standards and create jobs around the world is to make economies and governments more open and free, thereby encouraging business and entrepreneurship.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe it or not, the first spark for everything I've done today came down to me meeting one person in college who changed my life. A student named Anthony Adams who lived across the hall from me in our freshman dorm showed me what it meant to be an 'entrepreneur' when I saw him launch his own start-up company.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that if the entire voting population of the United States could be taken in small groups on a personally conducted tour of even the neutral countries of Europe, 85 percent of them would vote next November for any presidential candidate of any party who could convincingly promise them a big navy and conscription.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that body and spirit are not really separate, though it often seems that way. I believe that redemption is never impossible and always equivocal. But I guess that I just don't know.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's so important to get your voice heard, get out there, support what you believe in and what you wanna fight for.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020