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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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To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility. – Lawrence Hargrave

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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. – George Mikes

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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy. – James H. Douglas

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The cool thing about free will is that even if one has a huge bag of karma there is still a lot of free will for all those souls coming into the world. – Kuan Yin

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We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. – George A. Smith

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We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another. – Estelle Morris

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A lovely horse is always an experience…. It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. – Beryl Markham

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