- Globalization
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Now, what space ultimately is - I should confess, I think most physicists believe - we don't yet know.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you bang two electrons together with enough energy, you produce protons. If there are no independent laws, then all the properties of protons must somehow be 'known' by the electrons. By extension, every elementary particle must carry around enough information to produce the entire universe. I find that difficult to believe.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
- Defendant
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own bias in folkloristics is decidedly psychoanalytic. I believe that the vast majority of folklore concerns fantasy, and because of that, I am persuaded that techniques of analyzing fantasy are relevant to folklore data.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
- Collaboration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020