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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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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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Nothing recedes like success.
— Walter Winchell
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace…
— Elie Wiesel
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I think that physics is the most important-indeed the only-means we have of finding out the origins and fundamentals of our universe,…
— Unknown Author
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The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it.
— Ginnifer Goodwin
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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
— Unknown Author
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There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and…
— Diane Ackerman
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Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially…
— Avital Ronell
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The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his…
— Claude Bernard
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The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.
— Haridas Chaudhuri
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Loneliness comes suddenly like waves and recedes just as fast. That continues on forever. It’s the same for you. It’s the same…
— Chica Umino
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