"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to…" — Francis Bacon

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• Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
• And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief… — Isaac Asimov
• Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
• I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as… — Margaret Atwood
• No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel… — Saint Augustine
• Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
• It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
• It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,… — Jane Austen
• Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what… — Richard Bach
• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the… — Richard Bach

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