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Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.”

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British writer known for his satirical and humorous style, with notable works including 'Vile Bodies' and 'Brideshead Revisited'. Waugh is renowned for his profound insights into 20th-century British society and culture. more

“As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.”

Believe Looks Long Past Purpose Found Belief Answers Psychology Solutions Ideals Clouds Fulfillment Belief In Self Positive Psychology Above The Clouds

Author:Erich Fromm

“However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.”

Life Believe Humans Eye Law Individual Belief Seeing Difficulty Bottom Affair Seeds Convinced Inevitable Governing Inevitability Inexorable Fortuitous

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Would Be Belief Be Good

Author:Epictetus

“I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.”

Believe Values Belief I Believe

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before.”

Believe Dream Night Belief Hours Love Is Sun Stronger Deeper Thee Twelve One Night

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.”

Believe Wisdom Lying Certain Politics Belief Wish Economy Amount Weight Liberalism

Author:Edwin W. Rice

“The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.”

Firsts Stories Home Belief Felt Cases Saws Position Duty Grew Horror Grew Up Propaganda Assumption Camps Nazi Brutality

Book:Crusade in Europe

Source: Crusade in Europe

“Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now; I shall have gone up higher, that is all, out of this old clay tenement into a house that is immortal-a body that death cannot touch, that sin cannot taint; a body fashioned like unto His glorious body.”

Source: Secret Power: The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work

“I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.”

Believe Belief Pleasure Sure Thing

Book:There ought to be a law--

Source: There ought to be a law--

“Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.”

Mean Belief Evidence Radio Senses

Book:White Noise

Source: White Noise

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