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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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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. – Ben Stein

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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. – Alban Berg

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. – Simone Weil

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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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