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But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of… — Evelyn Underhill
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through… — Salman Rushdie
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative… — Wendell Phillips
So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said. — Philip Wylie
In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it… — Eli Siegel
The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property. — Charles Sumner
In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute. — Arsene Wenger
The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire… — Donny Deutsch
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase:… — Gino Severini
When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too... as… — Rolf Harris
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength,… — Robert Genn
There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind. — Steve Jobs
The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. — Maria Mitchell
More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last… — Benjamin Cardozo
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man… — Rachel Carson
We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey taxi." Two is "What train do I take to… — David Letterman
You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For… — Tony Robbins
Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself. — Rajneesh
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous… — Thomas Paine
Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination,… — Firoozeh Dumas
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in… — Chuck Thompson
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the… — Vladimir Lenin
The phrase ‘the Internet never forgets’ is complete bollocks — Jeremy Keith
Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever… — Bell Hooks

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