Karen Armstrong Quotes
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
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It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.
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We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
