Karen Armstrong Quotes
We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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I want to be my own person.
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I have my own studio down in Miami.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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Peace is its own reward.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.
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Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.
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Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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I've never tried pot; I've never tried anything.
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When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
