To believe...

Posted May 29th, 2007 by George

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

— Ugo Betti, in Struggle Till Dawn.
Ugo Betti (1892 – 1953) was an Italian judge, better known as an author and famous Italian playwright

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"Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong about his facts."
"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."
"We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat."
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
"If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right."
"There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure." - Speech on April 30, 1954
"I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why." -New York Post (June 24, 1965)
"We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time."
"The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible."
"A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs."

— Bernard Baruch, Statesman, financier, economist (1870-1965)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Bernard_Baruch