W Quotes
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“We believe that active management and passive management are not necessarily contradictory ideas.”
Source: Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing
“We believe that all men and women are created in the image of God. We believe that we are all equally created. So the fact of the matter is that we should assume by default that we reject the support of those who do not support the theory, the notion, the fact, that all men are created equally.”
“We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation.”
“We believe that Almighty God has sent us Adolf Hitler so that he may rid Germany of the hypocrites and Pharisees.”
“We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us.”
“We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.”
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.”
Source: Einstein on Peace
“We believe that an understanding of the insights of MMT is a vital base for the creation of a world where people have the opportunity to live lives free from poverty and hunger and also to have the ability to contribute to their communities. MMT is the starting point for improvements to our lives, the seed from where good policy can grow and flourish.”
“We believe that arithmetic as it has been taught in grade schools until quite recently has such a meagre intellectual content that the oft-noted reaction against the subject is not an unfortunate rebellion against a difficult subject, but a perfectly proper response to a preoccupation with triviality.”
“We believe that big nations should not bully smaller nations, and that the sovereignty of nations must be respected. And we have long urged that disputes be resolved peacefully, including through mechanisms like international arbitration.”
“We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.”
“We believe that business can be a tool for social good.”
“We believe that by removing a crippling debt burden we'll help millions of Africans improve their lives and grow their economies.”
“We believe that capital must be cared for – stewarded.”
Source: Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing
“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
“We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival and well-being. We are convinced that this negotiation process must not be viewed as a traditional series of governmental trade-offs, but as an urgent international effort to safeguard human lives, homes, rights and livelihoods.”
“We believe that colleges have a fundamental responsibility, if you're located in an urban area, to turn outward and address the needs of the communities you serve.”
“We believe that Descartes was more interested in proving existence per se than his existence based on his identity or thought of his identity. He was interested in existence and thought per se, and an I is an accidental consequence of something that exists. I could be anything and could be an illusion. That is not the point. The point is that this I, regardless of how delusional or even if it were an illusion, is still something that can think He thinks, proving that “He” is, regardless of whether he is an illusion. Even an illusion is an existence. To be an illusion is to be, too.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“We believe that, despite a possibly cruel temperament and an impetuous nature that she followed throughout her life, Madame Delphine Macarty Lopez Blanque Lalaurie was not a serial killer, a sexual sadist or a perpetrator of bizarre medical experiments. She was a willful, spoiled, beautiful Creole socialite whose temper led her down the path of infamy.”
Source: Mad Madame LaLaurie: New Orleans' Most Famous Murderess Revealed
“We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.”
“We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.”
“We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We believe that every relationship is unique unto itself, and thus even an attempt to think in types and forms is not going to express the essential truths of what happens when we love people.”
“We believe that faith is the cure that heals all troubles.”
Source: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
“We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.”
“We believe that God is like a giant vending machine in the sky. We put in our requests in the form of prayers, and then the vending machine dispenses these prayers based upon how well we've followed the rules that someone else has told us are God's rules.”
“We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.”
“We believe that great creators are born with a biological immunity to risk. They’re wired to embrace uncertainty
and ignore social approval; they simply don’t worry about the costs of non-conformity the way the rest of us do. They’re programmed to be iconoclasts, rebels, revolutionaries, troublemakers, mavericks, and contrarians who are impervious to fear, rejection, and ridicule.”
Source: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
“We believe that having a longer duration of pain is worse than a shorter duration and that having a greater average level of pain is worse than having a lower average level. But this wasn’t what the patients reported at all. Their final ratings largely ignored the duration of pain. Instead, the ratings were predicted by what Kahneman termed the “Peak-End rule”: an average of the pain experienced at just two moments - the single worst moment of the procedure and the very end.”
Source: Being Mortal: Atul Gawande
“We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.”
“We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.”
“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.”
“We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself.”
“We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.”
“We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground. It will allow the moderate opposition to be able to neutralize the helicopters and aircraft that are dropping chemicals and have been carpet-bombing them, just like surface-to-air missiles in Afghanistan were able to change the balance of power there.”
“We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can arrange our life. If this belief is an illusion, then we are in the same position as you. But science has given us evidence by its numerous and important successes that it is no illusion.”
Source: THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION
“We believe that it is the job of each of us to step outside of ourselves, look beyond the shadows, and seek reality. If we hope to present an authentic self to the world, it is critical that we understand what is real and true about ourselves. So how do we begin to see our companies, our brands, our products, or ourselves as we really are ? For us, the best way to start is to stop watching shadows and start facing reality.”
“We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.”
“We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.”
“We believe that Jesus has made His home in our hearts, and as long as we carry Him there, God's love will keep our love strong no matter where we are.”
Source: Love Without Limits: A Remarkable Story of True Love Conquering All
“We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.”
“We believe that man's value - as every creature's value, ultimately - lies not in the mere intellect but in the spirit: in the capacity to reflect that which, for lack of a more precise word, we choose to call “the divine,” i.e. that which is true and beautiful beyond all manifestation, that which remains timeless (and therefore unchangeable) within all changes.”
Source: The Lightning and the Sun
“We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.”
“We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.”
“We believe that no matter where you live - whether a village in Punjab or the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, an old section of Kolkata or a new high-rise in Bangalore - every person deserves the same chance to live in security and dignity, to get an education, to find work, and to give their children a better future.”
“We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.”
“We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare.
Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?”
Source: Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
“We believe that our RAW team will, basically, exploit Shane's McMahon lack of regular wrestling.”
“We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every American this matter of the sound dollar is crucial. Without a sound dollar, every American family would face a renewal of inflation, an ever-increasing cost of living, the withering away of savings and life insurance policies.”
“We believe that part of the answer lies in pricing energy on the basis of its full costs to society. One reason we use energy so lavishly today is that the price of energy does not include all of the social costs of producing it. The costs incurred in protecting the environment and the health and safety of workers, for example, are part of the real costs of producing energy-but they are not now all included in the price of the product.”