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And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can…

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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…
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

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I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young,… — Hugo Chavez
If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well. — Brian Clough
My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover… — Pamela Anderson
It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise… — Lynn Davies
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense,… — Ulrich Beck
Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an… — Karen Armstrong
All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered. — Robin Sharma
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter… — John Polkinghorne
When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling… — Lauryn Hill
Thailand's been good. Mike Swick and his camp there have been awesome. I initially went there on the 12th week and was… — Soa Palelei
Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on… — Unknown Author

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