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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

— Peter Ustinov Dear Me (1977)

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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Who Said That? (1984)

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

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Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice.

Romanoff and Juliet (1956)

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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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