Word: beliefs
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With so many enemies, why didn't Alperon drive to court on Monday with some of his many henchmen? Former deputy police commissioner Yitzhak Aharonovtich told the Jerusalem Post that Alperon was "the type of criminal who believes in his own power. He paid for that belief with his life...
...with Chopra's books, the proceedings finish up with clearly laid-out instructions to help the reader find the magic lying at the heart of his or her own world. "Life is set up to bring you every needed situation in its own right time." "Judgment is a negative belief system held in place by stuck energy." "Fear is the spiritual opposite of love." And so forth. "Damn it," Jess remarks at one point in his adventure. "I was caught between sobbing and screaming. En-chantment overload will do that...
...belief in Obama as a force for moral reform rests on another shaky pillar--the idea that people should get their values from what they see on television. This goes for entertainers and Presidents. Obama can't do the work of the family. It's not his job to buy your kid a belt or teach him to box. His job is to monitor this nation's nuclear arsenal, not your daughter's iPod...
...later years (and after a long-term relationship with photographer Annie Leibowitz), she quite openly stated that she no longer believed much of what she wrote. Another statement from “On Photography” portends this reversal of thought, and I believe it speaks to a belief held by the tinyvices crew. “Photographs don’t seem beholden to the intentions of an artist,” she writes, “rather, they owe their existence to a loose cooperation (quasi-magical, quasi-accidental) between photographer and subject...which even when capricious...
Throughout the lecture at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Yadav addressed the increasingly detrimental proliferation of “takfir”—which she translated loosely as an accusation that another has given up a belief in Islam and its tenets—and the exclusion of moderates among the country’s leadership...