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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is an

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. – Amy Waldman

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So the premise of The Submission is that theres an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and its won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan. – Amy Waldman

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I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. – Amy Waldman

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So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies. – Tippi Hedren

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We dont focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. – William Glasser

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No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew. – Lord Mountbatten

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. – John Archibald Wheeler

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