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I believed I knew wholeheartedly what was good.
So, they believed that knowledge came from authorities that actually knew very little.
Because, you see, the Greeks believed you live only once, and when you die, you have to cross the River Styx.
So Steve Jobs had always believed in simplicity and elegance and beauty.
Because she believed that the only way to unblock what, at the time, was known as a blocked democracy, Italy, a country run by the same party for 35 years was the arms struggle.
Well, these basically are things I believed in such a long time.
I got infected when I was 17, when, as a student of the design college, I encountered adults who actually believed in my ideas, challenged me and had lots of cups of chai with me.
I believed that I just needed to educate the industry of the enormity of this population and the fact that these were consumers that simply weren't being considered.
And this is something that changes your understanding of the world around you, and teaches you that you're very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.
Even the ones that believed they were getting better matched the controls exactly.
What if I was to tell you that some early Christians who lived in the desert believed that flying demons who mainly came out at lunchtime could infect them with an emotion they called "accidie," a kind of lethargy that was sometimes so intense it could even kill them?
In fact, many ancient societies, including the Greeks and the Romans, believed that to utter a curse verbally was so powerful, because to say the thing out loud brought it into existence.
My father believed in a holistic approach to living, and, you know, every time he taught us, he'd say, "I hate these books, because these books are hijacked by Industrial Revolution."
For some time I have been interested in the placebo effect, which might seem like an odd thing for a magician to be interested in, unless you think of it in the terms that I do, which is, "Something fake is believed in enough by somebody that it becomes something real."
For the next eight years, I believed the lies that I had been fed.
And before the discovery of these vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis.
I believed the photographers, and so did millions of other Americans.
She said, "I don't know if he did it because he believed, but he knew we were not going to leave.
They believed that if they could figure out this flying machine, it'll change the course of the world.
The people who believed in the Wright brothers' dream worked with them with blood and sweat and tears.
The reason that person bought the iPhone in the first six hours, stood in line for six hours, was because of what they believed about the world, and how they wanted everybody to see them: they were first.
He went around and told people what he believed.
And people who believed what he believed took his cause, and they made it their own, and they told people.
It's what they believed about America that got them to travel in a bus for eight hours to stand in the sun in Washington in the middle of August.
It's what they believed, and it wasn't about black versus white: 25% of the audience was white.
Dr. King believed that there are two types of laws in this world: those that are made by a higher authority and those that are made by men.
But since they asked me that question with the word "believe" in it, somehow it was all different, because I wasn't exactly sure if I believed what I so clearly felt.
So it's a type of that expanded to explain, I think, a lot of different things: souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens, intelligent designers, government conspiracists and all manner of invisible agents with power and intention, are believed to haunt our world and control our lives.
In the early '70s, Roger Payne and an ocean acoustician published a theoretical paper pointing out that it was possible that sound could transmit over these large areas, but very few biologists believed it.
But I've always believed that stories, too, have a similar effect on us.
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