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“My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.”

States America Opportunity Belief Parent United United States Heard Land Pockets Land Of Opportunity

Author:Mia Love

“We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.”

Thinking Believe May Belief Heard Customs Boast Axioms Free Thinking

Book:Sartor Resartus

Source: Sartor Resartus

“Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse, he is not religious. But once he has heard that pulse, he will be hearing it always. Every day his life will replenish itself from this inexhaustible source, eternal and powerful as the sun.”

Ifs Men Feels Mean Doe Universe Belief Religious Powerful Sun Heard Source Eternal Hearing Pulse Binding

Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva

“I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.”

Thinking Political Belief Bits Situation Heard Particular Myth Political Beliefs

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.”

Men Death Names Belief Heard Ill Immortality

Book:The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

“When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.”

Belief Talking Wonder Heard Words Of Wisdom Sitting Sat Papa

Book:The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit

“That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. ... What he believes tells him what the world is for. How can men who disagree about what the world is for agree about any of the minutiae of daily conduct? The statement really means that it does not matter what a man believes so long as he does not take his beliefs seriously.”

Men World Believe Mean Long Doe Matter Today Belief Sides Heard Agree Statements Disagree Really Mean Minutiae

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.”

People Knows Way Problem Belief Causes Heard Solve Core Best Way Mock Core Beliefs

Author:Scott Adams

“It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.”

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.”