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Philosopher, Mathematician

“The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.”

Thinking Belief Punishment

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Anne Lamott

Author, Essayist

“Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.”

Writing Children Belief

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

“Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”

Belief Heal

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Robert Frost

Poet

“For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true”

Truth Belief

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Brian Tracy

Author, Speaker

“Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.”

Belief Persistence Measurement

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Writer

“There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.”

Believe Belief Funeral

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Alan Ball

Screenwriter, Director, Producer

“I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'”

Belief Buddhist

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William James

Philosopher, Psychologist

“A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock”

Desire Truth Belief

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William Joyce

Author

“Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.”

Belief Germany Heroism

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Winston Churchill

Politician, Writer, Historian

“The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.”

Belief States Throwing

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Terry Pratchett

Author

“Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.”

Belief Opinion Manners

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Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

“Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.”

Essence Belief Violence

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