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As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
(David Jenkins (b. 1925), British ecclesiastic, Bishop of Durham. quoted in Daily Telegraph (London, Nov. 2, 1988).)
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
(Noam Chomsky (b. 1928), U.S. linguist, political analyst. television interview with John Pilger on "The Late Show," Nov. 25, 1992, BBC2. excerpted in Guardian (London, Nov. 23, 1992).)
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People willingly believe what they want to believe.
(Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100-44 B.C.), Roman general, political leader, and first Roman dictator. The Gallic War, 3.18.)
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behold
The approach of him whom none believes,
Whom all believe that all believe,
A pagan in a varnished car.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Man with the Blue Guitar.")
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If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Fate," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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Mr. Fitzgerald—I believe that is how he spells his name—seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
(Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948), U.S. writer. quoted in Nancy Milford, Zelda, pt. 2, ch. 7 (1970). "The Beautiful and the Damned," Tribune (New York, April 2, 1922).
review of F. Scott Fitzgerald. "On one page," she elaborated, "I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage.")
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
(G.C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg (1742-1799), German physicist, philosopher. "Notebook K," aph. 55, Aphorisms (written 1765-1799), trans. by R.J. Hollingdale (1990).)
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Everybody's Autobiography, ch. 3, Random House (1937).)
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
(Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author. Samuel Butler's Notebooks, p. 193 (1951).)
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Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Brutus, in Julius Caesar, act 3, sc. 2, l. 14-6.
Speaking to the people.)
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