Karen Armstrong Quotes
Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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In skating or any amateur sport, as athletes we share something in common: the cost of training is quite a burden on our parents or on the athletes themselves trying to find a way to pay for their costs.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.
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Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.
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Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.
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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.