Believed
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As somebody who has always
believed
in the importance of the stuff that we know, this was a terrifying idea to me.
[Science for the public good] Previously, it was
believed
that scientific knowledge ought to be used for the good of the king or queen, or for one's own personal gain.
They also relentlessly lobbied the British government for the money to build Babbage's engines because they
believed
these engines would have a huge practical impact on society.
Last but not least, Emma
believed
that you can't pick your family, but you can pick your friends.
Because no one really
believed
that this was important or meaningful except me and, like, one other guy.
After surviving the Cultural Revolution, they firmly
believed
there's only one sure way to happiness: a safe and well-paid job.
No adults
believed
I was serious.
He was the one who
believed
in me and encouraged me to do an adaptation of my books into a film, and to write, direct, and produce the film myself.
Again, the Ancient Greeks, with all their shortcomings,
believed
in the wisdom of the crowd at their best moments.
We sent a petition to the Shura Council in favor of lifting the ban on Saudi women, and there were, like, 3,500 citizens who
believed
in that and they signed that petition.
We're seeing an entente cordiale between science and religion that five years ago I would not have believed, as the evangelical community has understood the desperate situation of global warming.
He'd call out terrorism for what it is, not only criminal but an obscene travesty of everything he
believed
in and struggled for.
It became part of us, and we
believed
in it.
It has a very large, thick atmosphere, and in fact, its surface environment was
believed
to be more like the environment we have here on the Earth, or at least had in the past, than any other body in the solar system.
What if you lived in a city that
believed
that, that said, "We're not waiting for that hit song to define us.
Now at first, I would have
believed
them.
But that was only true for the people who also
believed
that stress is harmful for your health.
One's a claim: there has been a great decline in trust, very widely
believed.
The Iranians
believed
that whatever they did, even if they moderated their policies, the U.S. would continue to seek Iran's isolation, and the only way Iran could compel Washington to change its position was by imposing a cost on the U.S. if it didn't.
In some ways, this sounds paradoxical, but according to Martin Indyk of the Clinton administration, the Iranians had not gotten it entirely wrong, because the more peace there would be between Israel and Palestine, the U.S. believed, the more Iran would get isolated.
So when we found the cancer, it doesn't seem strange to us at all that without saying a word to each other, we
believed
that, if we were smart enough and strong enough and brave enough, and we worked hard enough, we could keep him from dying ever.
I
believed
I could keep him from dying, and I'd be embarrassed to say that if I hadn't seen so many people and have talked to so many people who have felt exactly the same way.
So Terence told me a story on that long-ago night, and I
believed
it.
And I promise to you, this was such an important moment in my career, when I realized that the great leader
believed
in young people and new ideas.
And remarkably, that matches exactly what our ancestors are
believed
to have invented one and a half million years ago, when they invented cooking.
And so I
believed
it anyway, even though it didn't make much sense.
He said, actually, that he
believed
the job of the painter was to paint everything that was visible and invisible in the universe.
So this, in a sense, was really what I
believed
an icon was.
Some people say, I only
believed
in remembering the past, imagining the future, never the present.
Until the mid-20th century, many researchers
believed
that the specific ways we show emotion were learned behaviors that varied across cultures.
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