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- We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels)…
- Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what…
- God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there…
- Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable,…
- If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can…
- All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean…
- What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not…
- Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what…
- A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or…
- ... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong