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I believe that faith is a precursor of all our ideas.

— Charlie Chaplin My Autobiography (1964)

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Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
If you’re looking down.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

My Autobiography (1964)

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

My Autobiography (1964)

I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.

The Great Dictator (1940)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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