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Karen Armstrong has 106 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out…
— Henry Hamilton Beamish
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain`s naughty seaside postcards. When Marilyn Monroe`s first film was shown here [The…
— Diana Dors
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Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after…
— Douglas Alexander
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries…
— Karen Armstrong
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America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
— Ringo Starr
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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Italy is like that big country, or no, Europe is that big country and then you have like Britain in there and…
— Jersey Shore
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It's like Britain, only with buttons.
— Unknown Author
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