“I know that millions of dollars have been spent to produce this splendid graduating class, and that the main hope of your teachers was, once they got through with you, that you would no longer be superstitious. I'm sorry — I have to undo that now. I beg you to believe in the most ridiculous superstition of all: that humanity is at the center of the universe, the fulfiller or the frustrator of the grandest dreams of God Almighty.
If you can believe that, and make others believe it, then there might be hope for us. Human beings might stop treating each other like garbage, might begin to treasure and protect each other instead. Then it might be all right to have babies again.”

Bennington College address (1970)

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American writer 1922–2007

John Knowles book A Separate Peace

Finny, on his trust in Gene.
Source: A Separate Peace (1959), P. 163

“To know, you just have to know. To believe, you have to make others believe.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet

#171
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)

“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 41 (p. 268)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, "I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested," it's done, in Jesus' name.”

Pat Robertson (1930) American media mogul, executive chairman, and a former Southern Baptist minister

2013-02-28
Pat Robertson
The 700 Club
Television, quoted in * 2013-02-28
Pat Robertson's Prayers Can Make You A Millionaire
Brian
Tashman
Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertsons-prayers-can-make-you-millionaire and * 2013-03-01
Pat Robertson Claims God Will Give One of His Viewers $1M
Michael
Gryboski
The Christian Post
http://www.christianpost.com/news/pat-robertson-claims-god-will-give-one-of-his-viewers-1m-91051/

“Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?”

John Fante book Ask the Dust

Source: Ask the Dust

“Finally, the last thing I’ll say to the people who don’t believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics: I'm sorry for you. I’m sorry that you can’t dream big. I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.”

Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA

Farewell speech at the Champs-Élysées podium, after winning his seventh Tour de France, quoted in "Paris salutes its American hero" by Caroline Wyatt in BBC News (24 July 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/4713283.stm <br class="br">Context: Finally, the last thing I’ll say to the people who don’t believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics: I'm sorry for you. I’m sorry that you can’t dream big. I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. But this is one hell of a race. This is a great sporting event and you should stand around and believe it. You should believe in these athletes, and you should believe in these people. I'll be a fan of the Tour de France for as long as I live. And there are no secrets — this is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it. So Vive le Tour forever!

“You have to be willing to be ridiculed, laughed at, and mocked. You have to have people not believing in you. That makes you your own biggest cheerleader.”

Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality

pg. 220
Pretty Mess book (2018)

“No matter what they say the time has come
I'm ready now to start a new beginning
With all our hopes and all our dreams
And I know the stars will shine for you and for me
From the moment you believe.”

Melanie C (1974) British singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman

"The Moment You Believe" (co-written with Peter-John Vettese) · YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=519yuRHApfY <br class="br">This Time (2007)

“I don’t blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don’t know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.”

Billy the Kid (1859–1881) American cattle rustler, gambler, horse thief, outlaw, cowboy and ranch hand

Billy the Kid's comment to a Las Vegas Gazette reporter (December, 1880)<br> About Billy the Kid website http://www.aboutbillythekid.com/index.html

“I believe honestly that I can talk. I believe that I have the ability to reason, I have logic, I have compassion, I have understanding. If we talk there's no problem you know what I'm saying. But that's not what happened. People used what they heard in media and that's how they come at me, and then you know we got a clash.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

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