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• Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach,” I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. “ ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.

  Patricia Briggs

  Peaches, Stones, Als

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• ...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself.

  Tracy Kidder

  Goal, Imitation, Lives Of Others

  Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.278, Random House

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• Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Purple, People

  "Kelly Cutrone: ‘Society Has a Hyper-Emphasis On Thin and That Trend Comes From the Consumers’" by Nika Mavrody, www.thefashionspot.com. July 22nd, 2013.

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• All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.

  David Bowie

  Religious, Strong, Sex

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• Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

  Will Oldham

  Roots, People, Listening

  "Still voice, distant life" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.

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• We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Life, Business, Healing

  "Visions: Turkish Earthquake - an Islamic apocalyptic sign? The dream of Janet Holmes a' Court and a republican prophet - John Dunmore Lang". Interview with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. August 25, 1999.

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• Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

  Freeman Dyson

  Atmosphere, Climate, Global Warming

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• Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class of people is growing up who are unexploitable because they are not worth employing even for the minimum wage. Technological progress makes whole categories of people useless without making it possible to support them with the wealth produced by the progress.

  Jacques Ellul

  Growing Up, Class, Numbers

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• Cuts to defense budgets are already underway...there is now a lot of emphasis starting with the President that we have to build up our capabilities for development aid, resolutions, and getting allies to cooperate more on what needs to be done in the name of security.

  James F. Hoge, Jr.

  Cutting, Names, President

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• Change the emphasis, turn your attention around. If you become concerned with death, your life comes to be revealed to you for the first time, because the moment you become at ease with death you have gained a life that cannot die. The moment you have known death, you have known that life which is eternal.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Attention, Ease

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• The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

  Tony Blair

  Business, Responsibility, Recognition

  "A cringing appeasement of the rich and the powerful" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2004.

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• The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.

  William DeWitt Hyde

  Art, Optimism, Perspective

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• The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

  Howard Zinn

  Honesty, Lying, Data

  Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.30, South End Press

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• I got schooled this year by a boy. A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in love with. And he taught me the most important thing of all... To put the emphasis On life.

  Colleen Hoover

  Love, Boys, Years

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “This Girl”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• And as He has given, "In all thy getting, my Son, get understanding." This is putting proper emphasis in the proper places, and do not become sidetracked by things that would pertain to material or spiritual alone, or things of the body or things of the heavenly force. For you grow to heaven, you don't go to heaven. It is within thine own conscience that ye grow there. For there first must come peace and harmony within thy purpose, thy ideal, thy hopes, thy desires. Thy wishes even must be in harmony with thy ideal if you would make the experience in the earth of value to thee.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Son, Heaven

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• Now I approach climbing differently. I have learned less effort and energy, less obsession, and more feeling, as with piano, more emphasis and less frenzy.

  Pat Ament

  Climbing, Piano, Effort

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• My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

  Royal Robbins

  Ambition, Thinking, Climbing

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• Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Trying, Listeners, Speakers

  "Director Jennifer Lynch Interview SURVEILLANCE". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 22, 2009.

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• Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesn’t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Successful, Bombarded By

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• Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

  Adam Driver

  Marine, Talking, Feelings

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• My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

  Wentworth Miller

  Growing Up, Book, Games

  "SDCC 2010: Wentworth Miller Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE; Plus Updates on STOKER and UNCLE CHARLIE". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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• Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

  Alan Hirsch

  Teaching, Heart, Expression

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• Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

  Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

  War, Money Power, Unhappiness

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• Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

  Daniel Goleman

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.

  Douglas Adams

  Being Yourself, Atheist, Believe

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