"It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another."

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Carol Rifka Brunt

#Believe Quotes

“The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.”
“The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.”
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
“The complete teachings of all Buddhas - past, present, and future - are to be found within the essence of every human being.”
“There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.”
“Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country...A clearer case of foreign domination could not well be presented.”
“It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental.”
“Abraham Lincoln had a deep realism; he did not deceive or mislead himself, but faced the world he had to deal with as it really is. At the same time, he had a striking moral intelligence, and a confidence in the working of his own mind and conscience.”

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