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A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
Emmett Kelly
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Ludwig Erhard
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
Abba Eban
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Thomas Fuller
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
Mort Sahl
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
Thornton Wilder
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
William Graham Sumner
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.
Don Fraser
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
Theodore White
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
Henry A. Wallace
A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
Herodotus
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph Addison
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
Edvard Munch
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Jeff Cooper
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Gilbert Highet
A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.
Virginia Foxx
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