By believing them, you hand your creativity and motivation directly to the force you think is oppressing you.

通过相信他们，你把自己的创造性和动力拱手交给了你认为正在压迫你的力量。

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He's even got kids believing they're making beans grow faster by thinking good thoughts about them.

他甚至还让小孩子们相信，如果他们用善意的念头想着豌豆，能让豌豆生长速度加快。

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He capped this cavalcade of mistakes by advising everyone looking at citizen journalism to do what “real” journalist do: to check things out before believing them.

他建议每个考虑做公民记者的人都要做“真正的”记者所做的事：把事情调查清楚后才能相信。 跟这个建议比起来，前面那一长串错误根本不算什么。

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According to federal prosecutors, Bah participated in a conspiracy to defraud U.S. residents out of millions of dollars by deceiving them into believing they won a large cash sweepstakes prize.

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The results showed that residential electricity use actually rose by 8% because people tended to use more lights and keep them on longer believing that the lighting was cheaper.

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You begin by believing that they are (reasonably) smart and can be persuaded to your point of view if you give them the facts.

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