Word: belief
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...sports team, you give yourself up to something bigger than yourself, not just because your individuality is rendered insignificant in the mass of the crowd but also because being a fan involves faith. No matter what its current form may be, your team is worthy of blind devotion. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said in the 1950s: Wait till next year...
...have one moment to help educate people...I have to say the truth, so people can learn why this unfounded belief in women’s intellectual inferiority is so devastating,” Hopkins says. “The possibility that it was more than one moment of education did not cross my mind...
...data added fuel to the long-held belief that students at Harvard have less fun than their peers, even those at similarly rigorous schools like Yale...
...uniter, not a divider.” He can start by abandoning his stillborn plan to privatize Social Security and pledging to nominate judges that are acceptable to more than a sliver of ultra-conservative Americans. So far, however, Bush has only succeeded in disproving the oft-repeated belief of his presidential opponent last year. During the election, Senator John Kerry portrayed a Bush presidency as offering “four more years of the same.” If the first four months of political paralysis brought on by the second Bush administration are any indication...
...September 1st, my classmates and I went off to college. We arrived with packed suitcases, high expectations, and low alcohol tolerances. More importantly, we arrived with a belief in our own invincibility, we were 1600 big fish armed with equal parts optimism and naiveté. Having rarely been confronted with failure, we were united by the belief that these four years would be, if not the best years of our lives, at least excellent preparation for the glorious future promised by graduation speakers around the globe...