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Believing Quotes by Thomas Paine
- The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or…
- It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it…
- Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate…
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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we… — Kate Adie
- A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. — Theodor Adorno
- He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology… — Theodor Adorno
- There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews. — Bjork
- The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. — H. P. Blavatsky
- A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's… — Jo Brand
- Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that… — Julie Burchill
- To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as… — Julie Burchill
- We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power… — Louisa May Alcott
- The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in… — Samuel Butler
- To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was… — Albert Camus