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

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Knowledge
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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. – Karen Armstrong

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Imagination
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A love of nature is a consolation against failure. – Berthe Morisot

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Its how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. – Charlotte Whitton

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The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. – Millicent Fawcett

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I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge. – Dave Matthews

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