#believing

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. ↗

— David Hume

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. ↗

— Tom Robbins

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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arguing #believing #debating #lives #man

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them? ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

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You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am. ↗

— Jacob Lusk

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A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. ↗

— Shirley Manson

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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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