Susan Blackmore (Susan Jane Blackmore) Quotes
Memetics appears to have a lot of implications that we humans are machines, which people have never liked. Of course we're machines, we're biological machines. But people don't like that. Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. People don't like that. My view is that if these things are true it doesn't matter if we like them or not.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
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You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
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Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
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There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.
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Thank God for both our grandmothers, the Hollands' grandmother was very seminal, and mine was the head of the choir at my church, ... I had to be at church on Thursday, Saturday and Sundays rehearsing. I couldn't do anything else until I got that business taken care of.
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One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.
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Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.
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What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious. It was emotional. But ultimately, they made a decision to recognize civil marriage. And I think that's exactly how things should work.
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People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
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If I'm honest with myself, I think it's probably true I have learned more in my life through pain than through joy. But hopefully that's changing.
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It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.
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Control your life through insanity.
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It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.
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The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical sic science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.
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We humans like to know where we are headed, but creativity demands that we travel paths that lead to who-knows-where.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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Memetics appears to have a lot of implications that we humans are machines, which people have never liked. Of course we're machines, we're biological machines. But people don't like that. Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. People don't like that. My view is that if these things are true it doesn't matter if we like them or not.
