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Quote by David Hume
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. – David Hume

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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. – David Hume

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Beauty
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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. – David Hume

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David Hume
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The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again. – Nora Ephron

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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the Presidents widow? – Jackie Kennedy

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alone

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. – Patrick Henry

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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

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I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families. – Steve Kerr

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You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you dont know how to feel good about the work youre doing or the life youre leading. – Johnny Depp

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