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• I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and individual initiative and risk-takers being rewarded. But I also believe that everybody should have a fair shot and everybody should do their fair share and everybody should play by the same rules, because that's how our economy's grown. That's how we built the world's greatest middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Self, Should Have

  "Exclusive: Expanding the Debate with Third-Party Candidates Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson". www.democracynow.org. October 17, 2012.

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• Here in USA we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change - or have to change - our basic views on the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution, between a man and a woman.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Gun, Hands

  George W. Bush at the third Presidential Debate in Tempe, Arizona, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Believe, Giving, Serious Things

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• But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.

  Stephen Harper

  Believe, Government, People

  "National Post" Newspaper, March 6, 2004.

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• Well, as a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and they're all equally lacking in American society today.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Believe, Men, Feminist

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience.

  John Pilger

  Believe, Government, Use

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

  Rufus Wainwright

  Believe, Needs, World

  Song: Zebulon, 2010

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• In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.

  Richard Henry Pratt

  Believe, Civilization, Baptists

  Richard Henry Pratt, Robert Marshall Utley (1979). “The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Its Origins, Purposes, Progress, and the Difficulties Surmounted”

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• I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

  Harriet Harman

  Party, Believe, Feminist

  The Times, November 10, 2007.

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• Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God!

  Frederick Franck

  Believe, I Believe, Believe In God

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• I believe in just doing it and not looking for excuses because who really cares in the end? No one but oneself.

  Nancy Crow

  Believe, Commitment, Care

  Nancy Crow (2006). “Nancy Crow”

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• I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.

  Paul Emsley

  Believe, Artist, Views

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• Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Believe, Energy

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• I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

  Ba Jin

  Believe, Writing, Comedy

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• [I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.

  Austen Chamberlain

  Believe, Thrones, Maintenance

  "The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 147), 1971.

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• I believe in the gospel of cheerfulness, the gospel of Good Nature; the gospel of Good Health. Let us pay some attention to our bodies. Take care of our bodies, and our souls will take care of themselves.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Soul, Attention

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.287, Library of Alexandria

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• I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Religious, Believe

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• I may not be loud but that doesn't mean I'm not strong within myself. My mum and dad instilled in me to stand up for what I believe in - and I do.

  Leona Lewis

  Strong, Dad, Believe

  Now Magazine, July 2008.

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• I believe in JesusAn' what the Bible saidAn' I am fairly certainHe had himself a heavy head.He scared the lyin' peopleSo bad, they hung him deadAn' they never even listenedTo what he really said.

  Hoyt Axton

  Believe, Scared, Heavy

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• As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

  Brian Cowen

  Running, Philosophy, Believe

  "He's Taken the Blows and Now Brian's Doing It... His Way" by Lise Hand, www.independent.ie. January 28, 2009.

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• I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today.

  Martha Raye

  Beautiful, Country, Father

  "Take It from the Big Mouth: The Life of Martha Raye" by Jane Maddern Pittrone, (p. 220), April 8, 1999.

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• There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly.

  Emma Restall Orr

  Philosophy, Believe, Doe

  Emma Restall Orr (2012). “The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature”, p.3, John Hunt Publishing

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• Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Brother, Jobs, Dad

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• I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Liberty, Humans

  "Letters of H. L. Mencken". Book by Guy J. Forgue, 1961.

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