The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
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My entire family is in Mississippi. My dad has managed to call me twice, just long enough to tell me that they have lost everything - absolutely everything. One of my brothers called me and said, 'We are barely surviving - can you help?' I had been watching the destruction on television in disbelief, and that phone call was enough for me. I cannot sit idly by while these people, especially my loved ones, have nothing. I felt guilty that night taking a shower...these people don't even have a place to rest their head.
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A beggar had been sitting by the side of the road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. Spare some change? mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his baseball cap. I have nothing to give you, said the stranger. Then he added, What's that you are sitting on? Nothing, replied the beggar, Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember. Ever look inside? asked the stranger. What's the point? There's nothing in there. Have a look inside, insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw the box was filled with gold.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
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The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
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I can't stand movies that go back and forth between hard science and the worst kind of pseudoscience. Give me one or the other, OK? But don't base the plot around science and then expect me to suspend scientific disbelief every ten minutes.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
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No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually results in a belief in anything.
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
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