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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #christianity #christians #crusades #east

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

#bring #dismiss #effective #enabled #faculty

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#bike #falling #get #never #off

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#doing #important #journey #more #often

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.' ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#anyway #come #death #dying #easier

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. ↗

— John Ashbery

#feel #going #head #i #i feel

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#any #commoner #cooks #members #murder

You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated soldiers that have helped fight in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're living in tents and our soldiers are living in tents. So it's OK for soldiers to live in tents, in hot tents, but it's wrong for inmates? ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#afghanistan #cell #dedicated #dignity #every

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. ↗

— Arrian

#been #centuries #danger #free #free men

I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do. ↗

— Gemma Arterton

#because #before #big #enjoy #experienced