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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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 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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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.
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Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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Avoiding the all-too-typical divisive trappings of a takeover and creating instead a shared transnational culture - this is one of the most important lessons learned from combining Fiat and Chrysler to create FCA.
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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.
