"We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true."

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Dallas Willard

#Believe Quotes

“It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?”
“By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence dependsâ€” thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.”
“By becoming aware of the dignity of the mind, we realize the true ground of the dignity of man and therewith the goodness of the world, whither we understand it as created or uncreated, which is the home of man because it is the home of the human mind.”
“I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that was the stuff I was attracted to.”

Source : "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.
“Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.”

Source : Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2013). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.120, Harvard Business Press
“If y'all see me in the news, and I make the news for something that I ain't got no business making it for, don't bash me. Say it was a young guy living.”
“I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs.”
“I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write.”

Source : Source: deadline.com

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