They Believed Quotes

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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have… — Mikhail Bakunin
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage… — Louis D. Brandeis
The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.… — Albert Schweitzer
I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers… — Cesar Chavez
Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their… — Otto von Bismarck
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and… — Stephen Jay Gould
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time… — Arthur C. Clarke
And just as He appeared before the holy Apostles in true flesh, so now He has us see Him in the Sacred Bread. Looking at… — Francis of Assisi
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . .… — Louis D. Brandeis
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours… — Barack Obama
Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I donâ€™t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they… — Adam Levine
They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My… — John Hume
We were really helped when President Ronald Reagan came in. I remember non-commissioned officers who were going to retire and they re-enlisted because they believed… — Wesley Clark
I think we should be very clear on thisâ€¦ this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenmentâ€¦ It was the idea that people… — Wesley Clark
Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence.… — Karl Popper
In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never… — Anthony Horowitz
The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our… — Marian Wright Edelman
You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men… — August Spies
The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were… — Harry Crews
My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty… — James McBride

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