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DADA BHAGWAN The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
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DAMON HILL It's our belief the 8 year old was isolated in a tent with him during part of that time.
STEVE ALLEN The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Bohr's influence on the physics and the physicists of our century was stronger than that of anyo...
WERNER HEISENBERG The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, t...
DALAI LAMA There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, ...
LEON THEREMIN A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, ...
SUSAN CAIN Albert Einstein once said that ‘insanity’ was ‘Doing the same thing over and over again, expec...
JOSS SHELDON It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.
JESSICA SAVITCH There's a fine line between hope and belief. But he brings belief. All of us became better coaches t...
GREGG WILLIAMS Dehadhyas (the belief that ‘I am the body’) is to continue believing you are someone that you re...
DADA BHAGWAN He acted in good faith. He honestly held the belief that what he was selling was FDA-approved.
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MIGUEL RUIZ The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is ...
ADOLPH HARNACK Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
UTTERLY RUSSELL And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
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No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER The motivation is conflict resolution and the belief that it is better to be inclusive rather than e...
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MARC GUGGENHEIM The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief th...
LINDA CHAVEZ There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth th...
CHARLES DICKENS There was no doubt in the coaching staff's minds that he was going to be an important part of the pr...
JOE STONER There was no doubt in the coaching staff's minds that he was going to be an important part of the pr...
JOE STONER I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time...
TANA FRENCH It's a fairly significant jump. But there is no fundamental reason for it to go up. There was a litt...
CHARLIE SHARP Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity a...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for MAX PLANCK But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A...
JAMES MEADE A belief is an opinion, a religion is a belief, and an opinion is a right.
YAHYA MOHAMUD There is much honest doubt that should be encouraged. History, for instance, is literally patched to...
LARRY JONES I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into mu...
ZACHARY QUINTO One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of gre...
MARIE RUTKOSKI One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was ...
RON HOWARD There is some belief in the family that he was led astray.
MICHAEL FALCONER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
ZAYN MALIK Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of thi...
AMBROSE BIERCE If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and know...
MYLES MUNROE One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that ha...
MICHIO KAKU It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi...
FREEMAN DYSON I had travelled to a lot of cities in Europe before, but Prague was special. It held a mysterious at...
ARFI LAMBA There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who belie...
MAX BORN There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible, and those who beli...
MAX BORN It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.
PATTI SMITH He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It was obviously teetering on the brink of collapse during the time that I was there.
ED HUTSON A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a li...
WILL EISNER I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose...
MARK A. ROEDER Nevertheless, her own political philosophy could have been stated baldly (which it never was) as a b...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Our researchers into Public Opinion are content/ That he held the proper opinions for the time of ye...
W. H. AUDEN It became obvious during the interviews that there was one person that really fit our situation and ...
BOB MCNAIR It was an opinion that I expressed at the time and that's what I thought at the time.
DALE LEWIS There was notification just before dusk that there was some concern. Our helicopters . . . fly dur...
JAN WOODFORD Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the univ...
SAID NURSI Maybe the siren was was a fire truck? Mercer couldn't see one anywhere, but like some bounding St. B...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th...
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At the core of this desire is the belief that ...
DAVID LEVITHAN That was separate before and I believe it to be part of the job.
CARY GROTH Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
URSULA K. LE GUIN There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was ac...
PATRICK NESS if ever there was a time to run a deficit, it was during that recession and it was this kind of defi...
TIM KANE A knowledge economy doesn't mean producing doctorates, although there is a perception that higher-le...
MICHAEL DAVIDSON The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that tim...
GARY MALONE Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is ...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who belie...
MAX BORN and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean som...
MORRISSEY Where did he go when he left us? I spied the new journal he had started using just last week and hel...
AMY TAN The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th c...
AMOR TOWLES Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.
BRANDON SANDERSON There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the bes...
MITCH KAPOR Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds ~ Albert Einstein
ALBERT EINSTEIN When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was ...
ALBERT MALTZ It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had...
CHRISTINA ENGELA There was conversation and discussion at the table, a lot of it heated. He had a strong belief that ...
ANNE SWEENEY That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ...
RICHARD CURTIS Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It was very important to me to know that I was taking this company into an environment that was conf...
MARC FLEURY There was that period of time, everybody had told me about six months, before you really got it. It ...
ANDREA SNYDER America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted...
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ALBERT EINSTEIN Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at whe...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created th...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian rel...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for sel...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
ALBERT EINSTEIN An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concep...
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