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I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#childhood #dad #did #fact #feel

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. ↗

— Edwin Armstrong

#almost #based #causes #could #exclusively

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#compassion #course #feeling #how #mean

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

— Karen Armstrong

#compassion #dancing #day #diligently #knowledge

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

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#allowed #became #because #charter #conflict

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#been #come #design #doing #equipment

Research is creating new knowledge. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#knowledge #new #new knowledge #research

I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody. ↗

— Scott Baio

#before #being #everybody #four #hours

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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