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Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.


Charley Pride
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Certainties are arrived at only on foot.


Antonio Porchia
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Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
Emma Thompson
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.


Oscar Wilde
The judgements about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of a mass destruction - WMD - were presented with a certainty that was not justified.
John Chilcot
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.


Ayn Rand
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.


Logan Pearsall Smith
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From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.


John Greenleaf Whittier
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It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.
Vinoba Bhave
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I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.
Steven Curtis Chapman
You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
Ed Harris
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The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
Isaiah Berlin
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
Walter Bagehot
Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.
Eric Liu
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My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!
Malcolm X
The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.
Isaac Newton
People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.
Trey Parker
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Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Vaclav Havel
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I don't endorse products, only actions and beliefs.


Julia Butterfly Hill