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• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and… — Karen Armstrong
• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
• Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity,… — Jan Peter Balkenende
• Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. — John Boehner
• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your… — Mel Brooks
• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal… — Dan Brown
• There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished… — James Buchan
• There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who… — Tony Campolo
• From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of… — David Cameron
• Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through… — Amy Chua
• Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of… — David O. McKay
• If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I… — Shunryu Suzuki

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