Edmund Bourne Quotes
It’s hard to evaluate the validity of a belief you’re scarcely aware of—you just accept it as is.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
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We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.
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Science reserves the highest reward for those of you who disprove our most cherished beliefs. At any moment someone from any walk of life could come forward and be responsible for a complete revision of our view of everything.
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A climate in which belief may flourish.
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I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.
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Care for us and accept us - we are all human beings. We are normal. We have hands. We have feet. We can walk, we can talk, we have needs just like everyone else - don't be afraid of us - we are all the same!
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The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.
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It’s hard to evaluate the validity of a belief you’re scarcely aware of—you just accept it as is.
