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Most importantly, the ultimate sources of the housing boom – the beliefs about capitalism and future economic growth – seem solidly entrenched.
The transformation in investors’ beliefs is striking.
If we all took a moment to consider where we stood on the debate about human nature, we might gain valuable insight into our own beliefs – and by extension, the beliefs of others.
But today, Americans’ beliefs about social mobility are based more on myth than on fact.
Many brave Iranians were prepared to risk their lives to defend their beliefs.
The deep corruption of the Harvard University team chosen to “help” Russia in its transition, described in a detailed account published in 2006 by Institutional Investor, reinforced these beliefs.
We who experienced communism know well the outcomes of such beliefs: dead, artificial cities; gigantic waterworks that fail only after destroying diverse ecosystems; vast, largely anonymous and thus irresponsible states deciding where and how we shall dwell, work, relax or amuse ourselves.
Such beliefs engineer a dull and gray life, devoid of anything unique, because individuality is deemed irrational, non-systemic, unnecessary.
The decision to publish images or words that disrespect or defame others’ deeply held beliefs must be a personal one.
Western nations, the Japanese say, should not try to impose their cultural beliefs on them.
A large minority of citizens in the developed world inhabits filter bubbles created by these platforms – digital false realities in which existing beliefs become more rigid and extreme.
I have been privileged to witness these students becoming at ease with the cultures, faiths, and beliefs that inspire so many people around the world.
The question is no longer so much one of beliefs.
And all three seem predisposed not only to believe in outlandish conspiracies, but also to use those beliefs to shape policy and manipulate the public.
Home rule has been highly profitable for the Catalan clerisy, as it has subsidized the diffusion of all sorts of beliefs, such as that Catalonia enjoyed a glorious past before being “conquered” by Spain.
In any case, the religious beliefs of a minority should not deny individuals like Dudley Clendinen the right to end their lives in the manner of their own choosing.
Once beliefs and expectations are introduced into economics, as is surely reasonable, the results of fiscal policy become indeterminate.
Finally, employ more traditional psychotherapies: Verbal interactions with the therapist aimed at helping patients work on changing beliefs, reevaluate memories, encourage acceptance of one’s circumstances, acquire coping strategies, and so on.
But, as Susan Bayley, a "Subaltern" convert, puts it, "the initial premise is that even in parts of the Hindu heartland of Gangetic upper India, the institutions and beliefs which are often described as the elements of traditional caste were only taking shape as recently as the early 18 th century."
For young British Muslims, our globalized world challenges key beliefs, destabilizing their identity and thus encouraging a defensive response.
In any case, as Turkey’s crisis starkly demonstrates, even the most deeply held of misbegotten beliefs eventually run up against reality.
The only appropriate response is the one chosen by the US Embassy in Cairo, which denounced the film and said that the American government condemns those who offend others’ religious beliefs.
The fate of people arbitrarily imprisoned due to their religious beliefs and participation in recent protests adds to the growing worries about stability in Tibet.
Revelations during the campaign – for example, that, in a 2015 speech, she had said that “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases have to be changed” to secure women’s reproductive and other rights – reinforced fears that she would push too progressive a social agenda.
My intuition is that his reasoning has become entangled with his beliefs about the free market.
Cultural and religious beliefs also contributed to this scientific division by holding that conscious experience must somehow arise and exist independently of the human body.
This dualism of human spirit and physical body implied that brain-based explanations for problems affecting motor movement and language were possible, but that personality, feelings, and beliefs existed in the realm of the spirit.
But some North Koreans, perhaps many, might genuinely believe in the cult of the Kim Dynasty, which, like all cults (or indeed religious faiths), is made up of bits and pieces taken from other cultures, beliefs, and traditions.
There are often good reasons why certain beliefs have a strong appeal.
It is time for believers to pester their clerics – and non-believers to hound those who believe – to provide what no politician can: an injunction to respect all people, regardless of their beliefs.
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