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Letter "B" » believed
«We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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«Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.»
«The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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believed, effected, effecting, effects, observer, observing, physic, physics, really, seems, stone, stoning, The Observer, to that effect
«Was it by reason that I attained the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason!»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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«Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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as to, believed, so as to, told, understood
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