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faith head hits life looking lose until
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love... So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle. Steve Jobs
faith flower fruit
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works. Richard Whately
faith believe faculty
Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue. Bram Stoker
faith men blood
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. Alfred Rosenberg
faith order belief
Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism. Alfred Korzybski
faith fall insane-person
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our beliefs- we cannot adjust ourselves to actual conditions, and so fall into many avoidable semantic difficulties. But the so-called normal person practically never abides by his beliefs, and when his beliefs are building for him a fictitious world, he saves his neck by not abiding by them. A so-called "insane" person acts upon his beliefs, and so cannot adjust himself to a world which is quite different from his fancy. Alfred Korzybski
faith believe gambling
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances. Alfred Korzybski
faith feelings doubt
Faith lives in honest doubt. Alfred Lord Tennyson
faith dishonour rooted
His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Alfred Lord Tennyson
religious lying moving
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves. Bobby Fischer
religious people way
The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like. Bruce Kent
religious growing-up animal
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world! Eddie Vedder
religious believe different
I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive. E. O. Wilson
religious groups essentials
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. E. O. Wilson
religious character atheism
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety. E. O. Wilson
religious boxing moments
I had a moment of religious epiphanosity. Don King
religious government care
Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is. Dwight D. Eisenhower
religious israel people
The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values Dwight D. Eisenhower
democracy today constitution
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. Barbara Jordan
democracy never-forget vote
Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted. Al Gore
democracy succeed
We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency. Dick Cheney
democracy lawyer enough
Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers. Cullen Hightower
democracy fundamentals world
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed. Neil deGrasse Tyson
democracy austerity wells
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
democracy way blind
The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way. Henry Miller
democracy world way
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here. Hugo Chavez
democracy hate impact undermines
Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people. Karen Aroesty