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Believes Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
- No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
- What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
- Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
- Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
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