Alan Ryan Quotes, Believe Quotes, Writing Quotes

Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.

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I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Believe Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Believe Quotes , Special Quotes

I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Believe Quotes

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Believe Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

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The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners.

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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

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Tags : Abigail Washburn Quotes , Believe Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Believe Quotes , Common Sense Quotes

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Time Quotes , Believe Quotes

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Believe Quotes , Mean Quotes

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Believe Quotes , Ability Quotes

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Believe Quotes , Fall Quotes

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Believe Quotes , Errors Quotes

You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Believe Quotes , Silly Quotes

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

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Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , War Quotes , Believe Quotes

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Pain Quotes , Believe Quotes

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Believe Quotes , Science Quotes

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Truth Quotes , Believe Quotes

I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God Quotes , Believe Quotes