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• A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

  Don DeLillo

  Pain, Ideas, Catholic

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.81, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.

  Steve Harvey

  Meaningful, Blow, Hands

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

  Emeli Sande

  Song, Artist, Simple

  "Emeli Sande: The other Adele goes from med school to music" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 05, 2012.

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• The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

  Omar Bongo

  Political, Pluralism, Results

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• The one thing that I love about the live audience is the energy level. Like, from the minute of cast introductions, it's just constant energy being traded back and forth. When you do something funny, the audience laughs; when you're being serious, you can, like, feel the tension going through the audience.

  Jonathan Sadowski

  Laughing, Energy, Levels

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• A basic is an introduction. A fundamental is a foundation. A fundamental is a premise, idea, or fact that an entire system arises from and is based on. A fundamental determines the shape of what arises from it, much as a foundation of a house dictates its layout. A basic is how you introduce people you are teaching to the system. It is a beginning concept, often simplified to assist learning. If a fundamental is the foundation, a basic is the front door to enter the system.

  Marc MacYoung

  Teaching, Ideas, Doors

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• The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Laughter, Garden, Air

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.32, Atlântico Press

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• The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, Eye

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• A great introduction to cultures is their cuisine. It not only reflects their evolution, but also their beliefs and traditions.

  Vikas Khanna

  Culture, Cuisine, Belief

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• Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to one of the 1997 issues of the MMWR, there are some 30,000 to 50,000 cases of viral meningitis per year in the United States alone. That's where all those 30,000 - 50,000 cases of polio disappeared after the introduction of mass vaccination

  Viera Scheibner

  Years, Names, Issues

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• She's a big-hearted girl with hips to match.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Couple, Humor

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• Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Art, Husband

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• Apparently deciding Charles’s brief introduction wasn’t good enough, his brother reintroduced himself. “Dr. Samuel Cornick, elder brother and tormentor. Very nice to meet you, Anna—

  Patricia Briggs

  Brother, Nice, Drs

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.59, Penguin

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• After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted comfortable surroundings while plotting to murder one famed historical figure with another one. ~Cat

  Jeaniene Frost

  Historical, Rooms, Murder

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

  James Meade

  War, Oxford, Mind

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• The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.

  Tom Sutton

  Business, Competition, Innovation

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• nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Games, Needs

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.

  A. A. Milne

  Opposites, Long, Owl

  Milne, George, Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), Shepard, Ernest H. (1977). “The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner”, McClelland and Stewart, 1989

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• Payton grinned. “You must be Chase.” As she extended her hand in introduction, she took the opportunity to give him a more thorough once-over. He had dark wavy hair and warm brown eyes. Very Pat-rick Dempsey/McDreamy-esque. Good build, not terribly tall, maybe only five-ten-ish, but since Payton measured in at exactly five-three and one-third inch, she could work with this

  Julie James

  Eye, Dark, Opportunity

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.79, Penguin

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• The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

  Townsend Harris

  Wish, President, May

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• We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Ignorance, People

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.364

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• Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

  Billy Collins

  Wall, Mean, Names

  Billy Collins (2014). “The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.58, University of Arkansas Press

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• Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.

  Hanna Rosin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Games

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• Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record of your efforts, trials, pleasures, discouragements, and achievements. Day by day your thoughts and acts are being inscribed in your book of life. Hour by hour, the record is being made that must stand for all time. Once the word 'finish' must be written, let it then be said of your book that it is a record of noble purpose, generous service, and work well-done.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Motivational, Book, Names

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