I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable … - Karen Armstrong

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It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Karen Armstrong

I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.

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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

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The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.

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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

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If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we'll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.

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