Believed
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For years, scholars
believed
the library burned as the blaze spread into the city.
We both
believed
that our bank account balance was equal to our self worth.
The story goes that participants were prepared to give what they
believed
to be fatal electric shocks to a fellow participant when they got a question wrong, just because someone in a white coat told them to.
When they were interviewed after the study, all the participants said that they firmly
believed
that the learning and punishment study served a worthy scientific purpose which would have enduring gains for science, as opposed to the momentary, nonfatal discomfort caused to the participants.
Because somewhere along the way, sometimes a single failure convinced them that they couldn't succeed, and they
believed
it.
And then if I were to ask how many folks had a parent who maybe drank too much, or who really
believed
that if you spare the rod, you spoil the child, I bet a few more hands would go up.
Some even
believed
their acceptance had been an admissions error.
We studied the head of marketing at a German automaker where, fundamentally, they
believed
that it was the design engineers, not the marketeers, who were allowed to be innovative.
BM: In spite of being arrested, beaten up, threatened, the moment I discovered my voice, that I could actually stand up for what I really
believed
in, I'm no longer afraid.
They
believed
that I should grow up to enjoy the same freedoms and responsibilities as everyone else.
And I
believed
in the power of consumers, and let me tell you that this was the first time when a campaign was launched by me or anywhere in the world, to educate and sensitize the consumers to create a demand for child-labor-free rugs.
The person I
believed
for half of my life to have superpowers suddenly needed help to get dressed or to cut food.
If they
believed
there were any errors, we asked them to tell us what they were and we'd go back and check and they never challenged any of our findings.
I always
believed
that what happens in a school and what does not happen in a school is up to the principal.
So, I assembled a top-notch leadership team who
believed
in the possibility of all the children, and together, we tackled the small things, like resetting every single locker combination by hand so that every student could have a secure locker.
And he'd tell me how he's leaving his wife, and I
believed
him, until I got pregnant.
He
believed
that autism and autistic traits are common and always have been, seeing aspects of this continuum in familiar archetypes from pop culture like the socially awkward scientist and the absent-minded professor.
[Seventy] years later, we're still catching up to Asperger, who
believed
that the "cure" for the most disabling aspects of autism is to be found in understanding teachers, accommodating employers, supportive communities, and parents who have faith in their children's potential.
For a long period of time, we
believed
in a natural ranking order in the world around us, also known as the great chain of being, or "Scala naturae" in Latin, a top-down structure that normally starts with God at the very top, followed by angels, noblemen, common people, animals, and so on.
It's a century since we made this really fateful decision to take addicts and punish them and make them suffer, because we
believed
that would deter them; it would give them an incentive to stop.
These were four angry white men who
believed
that they, white men in America, were the victims of reverse discrimination in the workplace.
In myself, I had a ready audience, and I
believed
that by expressing my thoughts and wishes, others would listen, too.
The Greeks
believed
that weeping together created a bond between people.
Can you imagine what it was like for a little second-grader, who still wore pigtails and still
believed
in Santa Claus, going through this exam?
Out of a population of 150,000, only 18,000 are
believed
to still be left in Yarmouk.
And I
believed
it to be true.
Some of the rules we had were strict, but you followed the rules because you loved the people and you loved the religion and you
believed.
Most of us got put in front of a disciplinary council, and were rejected from the communities that we loved because we wanted to make them better, because we
believed
that they could be.
Newton
believed
that light is made up of tiny, atom-like particles, which he called corpuscles.
A few decades ago, many scientists
believed
that this could actually be possible.
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