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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

~A. Bartlett Giamatti

Topics: Always American Been Belief Capacity Devoted Get Idealism Naive Remarkably Time Trouble Viewed Why

Keywords: Continues Miracles My Life


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My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

~A. R. Rahman

Topics: After Away Belief Change Changed Convert Converted Death Decision Family Father Following Grew Healers Instantaneous Like Lives Mother Our Our Lives Past Patch Religion Rough Saint Spiritual Stronger Through Took Us Washing Years

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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Always Belief Deep Interested Look Moral Myself Other Out Should Things Very You

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Your belief system saturates the space around you.

~Aaron Huey

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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

~Aaron Schock

Topics: Being Belief Christian Christian Faith Conservative Faith Function Household How Midwest Raised Relatively Shaped System Tends Upbringing Views Were You Your

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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

~Abdurrahman Wahid

Topics: Against Because Belief Cling Danger Defend Defending Everything Institution Institutional Islam Many Now People See States Tend Territories Then Whatever

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I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

~Abigail Breslin

Topics: Belief Beyond Fan Horror Horror Movie Huge Movie

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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Advocate Alike Arrest Become Belief Course Either Extinction Forward Further Lawful Mind New North Old Opponents Place Public Push Rest Shall Slavery South Spread States Till Ultimate Well Where Will

Keywords: Abandon


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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

~Ada Louise Huxtable

Topics: Balm Battered Become Belief Clothes Day Days Drunk Few Kind Right Right Kind Sheds Spirit Summer Tensions Those Time World You

Keywords: Abhorrence


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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

~Adam Clayton

Topics: Belief Brothers Committed Equality He His Labors Man Mankind Then Unless Vain

Keywords: Ability


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