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• Faith … is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.

  C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity, Book III, Chapter 11 “Faith” (1952)

• Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  Augustine of Hippo354–430Sermones 4.1.1

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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