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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I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House. – George McGovern

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. – Khalil Gibran

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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. – Claude Bernard

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Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink. – Terri Guillemets

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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. – John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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