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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.