#believing

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

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I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

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You just have to keep believing in yourself. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

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My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

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I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't. ↗

— Star Jones

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In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#contemporaries #lost #much #our #rationality

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character. ↗

— Haley Joel Osment

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary. ↗

— Julius Rosenwald

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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

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