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“President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.”

War Ends America Spirit Belief President Democracy Cold Optimism Ultimate Triumph Willingness Phases Cold War Brighter His Smile President Reagan

Author:Colin Powell

“And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.”

Doe Young Night Song Dies Belief Stars Grief Sea Sky Cold Wave Flight Thrilling Phoenix Starry Night

Author:May Sarton

“In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.”

Knows Years Believe Earth Belief Felt Water Dark Sweet Cold Pure Bosoms

Book:Men, women, and places

Source: Men, women, and places

“All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name.”

“It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.”

Men War Belief Lines Cold Generosity Cold War Sinking Life Line

Author:Ernest Bevin

“When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.”

Doe Ideas Soul Belief Influence Cold Rising Horizon Warmth Decline Temperature Hottest

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that a scientist is a man who turns the handle of discovery; for at every level of endeavour scientific research is a passionate undertaking and the Promotion of Natural Knowledge depends above all on a sortee into what can be imagined but is not yet known.”

“And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.”

“On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.”

Doe Ideas Whole Artist Belief Water Cold Benefits Debt Harm Collectors Cold Water Flogging

Book:The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.”

Men Made Form Passion Belief Fashion Mines Brother Pride Cold Worship Lows Hot Humble Worthy My Brother Desperate Bows Creeds Gross Shrines Open Eyes True Worship

Book:Selected letters of Don Marquis

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold War.”

War Form Political Belief Causes Simple Cold Assumption Soviet Cold War Hostile Political Life

Author:Robert Conquest

“In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.”