Quote by Karen Armstrong
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, p

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. – Karen Armstrong

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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, Id think, how awful. – Karen Armstrong

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Religion
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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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Home
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isnt necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. – Karen Armstrong

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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. – Daniel Webster

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Failure

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. – P. J. ORourke

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Failure

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. – William Feather

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Failure

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations. – David Suzuki

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Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. – Byron Dorgan

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How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring! – Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons, 1953

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Justice is truth in action. – Benjamin Disraeli

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We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death. – Proverb

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