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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. – Walter Kaufmann

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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddhas atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. – Walter Kaufmann

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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. – Walter Kaufmann

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For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. – T. S. Eliot

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At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate. – Luke Ford

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Id be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice Ive made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot. – Ethan Hawke

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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead – and so the imagination of the living. – William Carlos Williams

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. – Albert Camus

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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. – Francis Bacon

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When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group. – Shirin Ebadi

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