Quote by Karen Armstrong
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss

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

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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. – Karen Armstrong

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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasnt a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place. – Matthew Sweet

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The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. – Sarah Fielding

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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. – Ishmael Reed

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Im not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. – Courteney Cox

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