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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. – Karen Armstrong

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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. – Karen Armstrong

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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they dont want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. – Karen Armstrong

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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as theres bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. – Karen Armstrong

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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. – Abdullah Ibrahim

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We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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I think all the knowledge and all the travels that Ive done, Im going to do a lot of great work in the future. – Chris Tucker

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Its clear that people are going to download media files, and theyre going to talk to each other, and theyre going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of. – Michael Nesmith

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