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I felt limited in my ability to say what I thought, what I felt, what I believed.
That is to say, at that time it was believed that there was nothing up there except the branches of Redwood trees.
In one study, children who reported believing they had no control over pain actually experienced more intense pain than those who believed they had some control.
Would they have believed me?
We believed in each other.
I couldn't change what a system believed about me, while I believed what the system believed about me.
I, like everyone around me, believed that it wasn't possible for me to exist in my dream as I was.
Just like Jamal's dad, John McCain was a veteran, and just like Jamal's dad protected him, Jamal believed that John McCain would protect the entire country.
The motivations of the witch hunters probably varied as well, but it seems likely that many weren’t consciously looking for scapegoats— instead, they sincerely believed in witchcraft, and thought they were doing good by rooting it out in their communities.
For a long time it was not believed when the first Western travelers, like Sir Francis Drake, went to Thailand and came back with tales of this unbelievable spectacle.
No one believed them.
I believed that hardships were only detours on what I was certain would be my long, long life.
They believed they were advancing science.
When I was young, my mother and her generation believed that life was determined by fate.
But these young people were willing to go to jail for what they believed.
People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
Socrates, famously, believed that he had a daemon who spoke wisdom to him from afar.
They believed that a genius was this, sort of magical divine entity, who was believed to literally live in the walls of an artist's studio, kind of like Dobby the house elf, and who would come out and sort of invisibly assist the artist with their work and would shape the outcome of that work.
But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished, with somebody else.
A primary care doctor I particularly admire once told me how she believed that her relationship with a patient over a decade was the only healthy relationship that that patient had in her life.
Instead, he believed the liver constantly produces an endless supply of blood, which gets entirely depleted on its one-way trip to the organs.
15th century Europeans believed they had hit upon a miracle cure: a remedy for epilepsy, hemorrhage, bruising, nausea, and virtually any other medical ailment.
Chinggis Khan believed that Tenggeri wanted him to conquer the entire world in his name.
As pacifists, they believed that all disputes should be settled non-violently.
"Ping-pong" sounds like a cousin of "sing-song," like something Eastern, but actually, it's believed that it was invented by high-class Brits during Victorian times, who started hitting wine corks over walls of books after dinner.
Growing up in North Korea, we truly believed that our Dear Leader is an almighty god who can even read my thoughts.
Now, we can use the tools of the 21st century to try and observe what is, rather than ask what should be, believed.
And David believed, like we do in the visual effects industry, that anything is possible as long as you have enough time, resources and, of course, money.
And they both believed this would make an amazing film, of course, but it was a very high-risk proposition.
But we believed that we had a very solid methodology that might work ... But despite our verbal assurances, they wanted some proof.
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