"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true."
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"My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has."
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"Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real."
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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
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"In the search for truth,what you believe matters lessthan how you believe."
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"Impossibilitarians are defeated before the battle even begins. The best attitude that accommodates failure is disbelief. You can't do it because you believe you can't! You can do it because you believe you can!"
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"I have only dwelt in my thoughts."
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"If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?"
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"God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others."
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"Hope is a believe in God."
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"Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission anyways."
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"Never think twice, when you have decided once."
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"Even if we have ourselves so fully convinced that we are on the right track because we desperately want to believe that the specific direction we have chosen is the "correct one", if the universe disagrees with our choices, it will not be shy in telling us so."
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"You can conquer any mountain with faith, hope and courage."
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"Never lose faith, hope and courage."
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"Every action today will define the future."
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"Look onwards to what lies ahead."
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"The light within is a fire, whose flame does not burn, but brings warmth; and whose rays do not blind, but illuminate. Once kindled, it blazes a trail and lights our way."
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"A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false."
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"Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction."
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