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The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #before #cart #comprehension #doctrines

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#little #mastered #much #next #next year

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#france #great #none #supreme

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#good #good job #job #play #pretty

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#carefully #century #dalton #destroyed #during

I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#anything #because #before #doing #done

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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