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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

~Francis Spufford

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For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.

~Francis Spufford

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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

~Francis Spufford

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Does each of us need to suffer agony to understand how brutal our gridiron entertainment is? Surely, seeing is believing enough. So, what is football doing to us as a people? How do we explain an America that alone in the world so loves this savage sport?

~Frank Deford

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

~Franz Kafka

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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

~Franz Kafka

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The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

~Freeman Dyson

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Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

~Gary Bauer

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I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

~Gary Johnson

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It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.

~Gemma Ward

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