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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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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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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player – more than listening to a teacher – is the best way to get it. – Vijay Singh

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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could – with 100 per cent certainty – know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. – Hans Blix

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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy… its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? – Humphry Davy

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I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. – Frederick Sanger

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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley

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Meow is like aloha — it can mean anything. – Hank Ketchum

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