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Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to be aware that it was dealing with shadows and illusions, not reality.

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it

But if the brain is not like a computer, then what is it like? What kind of model can we form in regard to its functioning? I believe there's only one answer to that question, and perhaps it will disturb you: there is no model of the brain, nor will there ever be. That's because the brain, as the constructor of all models, transcends all models. The brain's uniqueness stems from the fact that nowhere in the known universe is there anything even remotely resembling it.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

But it’s compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.

But most significant in this tidal wave of happiness was the surest fact of all: I was with Edward. Forever - Bella Cullen

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?

But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday.

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

But the fact that most of the show you can't be prepared for, you have no idea really what's coming is initially very nerve wracking, by now, it's kind of fun.