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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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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Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. – Henry Miller

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A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of societys resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. – Wilhelm Dilthey

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But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation. – George Jackson

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There is still the feeling that womens writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. – Erica Jong

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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. – Mikhail Bakunin

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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. – Herbert Read

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I hope Ive lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people. – Joshua Lederberg

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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin

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