- Creativity
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst possible thing in the world is to have someone who doesn't believe in you.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that if models look like children, then they shouldn't be sexualised.
- Devise
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020