Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after winning almost every attainable honor at Oxford, Knox, then only 24, became Anglican chaplain of Oxford's Trinity College. He seemed to be having a wonderful time-preaching, talking, and turning out books. But his soul was not at peace. "Authority played a large part in my belief," he later explained. In September 1917, after resigning his Oxford chaplaincy, he joined the Roman Catholic Church...
...second main dogma of the Neo-Malthusians is their belief that the productivity of the world's cultivated land is falling now and is sure to fall even more because of erosion and exhaustion. The enormous crops that the U.S. raised this year, they say, are a cruel illusion; they were achieved by "soil mining," and will be paid for inexorably in future crop failures...
...Pelagius, excommunicated for heresy in the 5th Century, has been identified with the belief that man could be saved by good works alone...
...member of the Hitler youth, and I am not sorry ... I was a Nazi, and I was happy that I was one ... I can be forced to give the outward signs of another belief, but what I keep in my heart is mine forever ... Oh my God, I love Germany, as she is now, a hopeless wasteland, and I will walk into this wasteland and, with only the power of my hands, create a paradise therein, more beautiful than that in the Bible. This shall be my future...
...real issues are Herter's reactionary foreign and domestic record, and O'Brien's fine record of service to the poor and working people of Boston. We cannot support the belief that Herter's foreign policy achievements "should be enough to offset domestic conservatism on election day." Rather, if these are his most important achievements, they are more than valid bases for his defeat. Harvard Committee for Wallace