Quote by Amy Waldman
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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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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Imagination
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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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design
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life – involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense. – Talcott Parsons

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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. – Abdullah Ibrahim

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

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These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it. – Frances Wright

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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time – when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night – and that went on for eight years. – Andrew Wiles

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Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. – Paula Abdul

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