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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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
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Roberto Martinez's belief is unbelievable
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A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
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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.
