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Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama

Religion, Kindness, Compassion

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson

Enemy, Wishes, Says

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Ignorance, Nothing

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

Person, Him, Give

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Life, War, Death

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw

Means, Bible, Says

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo

Faith, Nothing, Him

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Different, Before, After

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard Shaw

May, Acts, Creed

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret Thatcher

Values, Process, Seems

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Malcolm X

Religion, Time, Freedom

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus Christ

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Henry Miller

Faith, Nothing, Miracles

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
Dan Rather

Truth, Teacher, Sometimes

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
Barack Obama

Work, Hard, America

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Emily Dickinson

Behavior, Thinks, Feels

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.
Mitt Romney

Future, Strong, Past

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. Mencken

May, Idea, Quite

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Jeff Cooper

Wise, Smart, Knows

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James

Faith, Two, Universe

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
Victor Hugo

Others, Himself

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
Ambrose Bierce

Country, Republican, Democrats

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli

Destiny, Soul, Chance

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

Education, Money, America

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer

Mind, Evil, Person

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Hypatia

Great, Pain, Mind

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Makes, Wheels

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
Gilbert Murray

Enemy, Nothing, Soul

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Often, Doubts

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