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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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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I…
— Kevin Rudd
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We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.
— Richard Lugar
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If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
— Walter Lippmann
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
— Stephen Ambrose
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The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career…
— John F. Kennedy
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Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
— Winston Churchill
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We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless. That's a real problem, and that's a problem that concerns me particularly on foreign…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is…
— Eliot Spitzer
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The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the…
— William Blum
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying…
— Talib Kweli
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