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• Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Nursing, Acceptance

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it's so detailed that the viewer can take time and read it, and look at something here, and look at something there, and they can pay attention to a lot more.

  Stephen Shore

  Looks, Attention, Pay

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• But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

  Hortense Calisher

  Memories, Wreaths, Recalls

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “In the Absence of Angels: Stories”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own immediate interest, however damaging they may be to others, needs little emphasis now.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Thinking, Order

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.

  Jennifer Hudson

  People, Focus, Way

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.25, Penguin

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• I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Teaching, Creativity, Organization

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• I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

  Marina Abramovic

  Communication, Thinking, Silence

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• I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Kids, Race

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Issues, Wind

  "Death of a Salesman at Fifty: An Interview with Arthur Miller". Interview With Colby H. Kullman, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

  Rachel McAdams

  Mother, Growing Up, Looks

  "Rachel McAdams In Vogue: I’m Pretty Good On My Own". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Doors, Gentleman

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Modern Library

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• Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Despair, Weakness, Lawyer

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• We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business.

  Richard Branson

  Successful, Ideas, Marketing

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• As Americans we place special emphasis on human dignity, justice and freedom. WE measure as good of bad that which meets these goals. Those high ideas have survived and flourished on this soil for two centuries since the Founding Fathers planted them because we have sustained a general public enlightenment through a free and universal public school system.

  Henry Clausen

  Father, School, Ideas

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• I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that.

  Simon Critchley

  Boredom, Anxiety, Phrases

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• The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Civilization, Brutality, Contempt

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• While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Order, Gdp, Elements

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• Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.

  Philip Yancey

  Confused, Community, Ordinary

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• The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Biblical, Christianity, Overwhelming

  Twitter post from Dec 23, 2014

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• The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Names, Facts

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord”, p.33, Discovery House

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• The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

  Cornel West

  Giving, Suffering, Speak

  Source: genius.com

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• I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Keys, Minors

  Source: genius.com

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• Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Past, Long, Understanding

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.119, Ardent Media

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• Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity, and that striving to always make the greatest version of something.

  Louis C. K.

  Strong, Creativity, Apples

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• The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.

  John Updike

  Erotic, World, Pillars

  1989 Self-Consciousness, III.'Getting The Words Out'

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