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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

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#mine #people #problem #some #some people

I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#change #clear #did #films #flower

These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next. ↗

— Marc Almond

#i #i do #kind #next #project

Food should be raw, just the way God intended it! ↗

— Carol Alt

#god #intended #just #raw #should

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#classical music #i #jazz #like #listen

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium. ↗

— Walt Alston

#either #excited #fans #get #happy

Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#back #before #current #evidence #facts

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#anything #appear #aura #far #god-given

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society. ↗

— Albert Camus

#existentialism #philosophy #equality