Susan Blackmore (Susan Jane Blackmore) Quotes
The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi, because I didn’t have an open mind!
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.
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Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.
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I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to multi-task to survive in the entertainment industry.
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The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
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Study the past if you want to define the future.
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When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.
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People like our stuff, some people hate it, but that's like anything, right? Some people love donuts, some people are allergic to 'em.
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Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.
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People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, “Well, are you a Republican or an American?” The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, “I don't have a knowledge that God exists.” The atheist says, “I don't have a belief that God exists.” You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.
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Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.
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The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi, because I didn’t have an open mind!
