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Belief
«If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| About:
Animals,
Belief
| Keywords:
beliefs, dogs, Go To Heaven, immortality, persons
«If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out»
«If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Science
| Keywords:
conceits, deflated, deflates, deflating, disservice, Long To, with conceit
«If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
acquire, beginning, belief, can-do, capacity, do it, may not, shall, surely, The Beginning
«If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
Belief,
Nations,
Survival
| Keywords:
advocate, bolster, bolstering, represent, submit, The United Nations, United Nations
«If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all»
«If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
mirth, The Faculty
«If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Belief,
Life
| Keywords:
dissonance, everlasting, hold out, Old World
«If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Belief,
God
| Keywords:
battle, believed, punishments, rewards