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> [“The great British philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood maintained in The Idea of History that to write well about a historical figure, you need both empathy and imagination. By this he did not mean spinning tales out of thin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/the-great-british-philosopher-and-historian-r-g-collingwood/)

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## More by Lesley Hazleton

> [We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them in writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/we-need-many-more-intrepid-women-who-set-out-to-expand-both-their-and/)

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> [“The great British philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood maintained in The Idea of History that to write well about a historical figure, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/the-great-british-philosopher-and-historian-r-g-collingwood/)

[Lesley Hazleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lesley-hazleton/)

> [“In Shia lore, Fatima lives on in another dimension to witness her sons’ suffering and to weep for them. She is the Holy Mother,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/in-shia-lore-fatima-lives-on-in-another-dimension-to-witness-her-sons/)

[Lesley Hazleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lesley-hazleton/)

> [“She soars with eagles and navigates by rainbows.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/she-soars-with-eagles-and-navigates-by-rainbows/)

[Lesley Hazleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lesley-hazleton/)

> [“Those who are comfortably established in life tend to have no need to ask what it means. They are the insiders, and for them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/those-who-are-comfortably-established-in-life-tend-to-have-no-need-to/)

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> [“It was the means of making it clear that no matter how painful, Muhammad needed to be true to himself, to his voice and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/it-was-the-means-of-making-it-clear-that-no-matter-how-painful/)

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> [I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/i-m-always-asking-questions-not-to-find-answers-but-to-see-where-the/)

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> [“Assassination creates an instant hero of its target. Any past sins are not just forgiven but utterly forgotten.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/assassination-creates-an-instant-hero-of-its-target-any-past-sins-are/)

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> [Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/muhammad-s-is-one-of-those-rare-lives-that-is-more-dramatic-in/)

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> [Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/everything-is-paradox-the-danger-is-one-dimensional-thinking/)

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> [Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/suffering-once-accepted-loses-its-edge-for-the-terror-of-it-lessens/)

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> [There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-hazleton/there-is-no-perfect-solution-to-depression-nor-should-there-be-and/)

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