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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
— Karen Armstrong
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It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
— Carrot Top
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Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the…
— Laozi
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It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of…
— Stephen Hawking
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Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.
— John Powell
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Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
— Susie Bright
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
— Laozi
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There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names…
— Frederick Lenz
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The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
— George Mikes
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our…
— Clarice Lispector
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