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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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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of…
— Aristophanes
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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;…
— Karen Armstrong
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When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
— Jared Sparks
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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.…
— Karl Popper
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You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from…
— Aristophanes
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We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.
— Stephen Charnock
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Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.
— Gerd Gigerenzer
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own…
— Donald Miller
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Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can…
— China Mieville
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You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you…
— Norton Juster
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The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional…
— John McWhorter
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