Sentence examples for believe a thing from inspiring English sources

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"Republicans don't believe a thing he says," Mr. Russo said.

"Do you believe a thing when everybody says it?" Holmes replied that he did.

"A wise man once said you should never believe a thing just because you want to believe it," Tyrion says.

SOME skeptics may believe a thing only when they see it in writing, but is the writing more believable when it is seen on paper rather than on a computer screen?

"He was either misinformed, or he was making it up," Mr. Testagrossa said, recalling that Mr. Hernandez provided details about blood drops sparkling in the sunlight, although the murder happened at 10 p.m. Another senior prosecutor in Queens, James Quinn, said, "I wouldn't believe a thing this guy says, to tell you the truth.

Using the example of the fabled Indian rope trick, Lamont aims to show, and largely succeeds, how people will believe a thing is true, despite all rational evidence to the contrary, indeed despite outright denials of its existence, if it is repeated that it is true often enough.

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This media cross-polinization leads me to believe a few things.

That is, we believe, an important thing".

Apparently, she didn't believe a lot of things.

"Nobody could believe such a thing".

But the odd thing here is that Mr Hague, of all people, cannot pretend to believe such a thing himself.

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