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• The creation message has matured over the past three decades, as the discernment and understanding of creationist leaders has matured. More and more, the emphasis is on the foundational issue: compromise of Genesis ultimately undermines the gospel itself.

  Ken Ham

  Past, Issues, Leader

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• Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Fall, Light

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• The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team
  function, with the emphasis being on the defender's own half of the field
  and letting the opponents keep the initiative of the game. This is to take
  advantage of the space behind their defense for the buildup and the attack.

  Rinus Michels

  Team, Play, Space

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• Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by the same tenure with all his other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot be less dear to us; if we consider the 'Declaration of those rights which pertain to the good people of Virginia, as the basis and foundation of government,' it is enumerated with equal solemnity, or rather studied emphasis.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Rights, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added)

  Janusz Korczak

  Pain, Identity, Born

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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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• 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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• 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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• Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

  Pat Summitt

  Winning, Coaching, Execution

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• The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Lying, Ideas, Giving

  "SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL".

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• A paradigm shift, where, in addition to, physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs, can be a promising way forward. This knowledge based approach will bring immense returns particularly in Rainfed and Dryland farming areas.

  Pratibha Patil

  Rain, Way Forward, Land

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Responsibility, Agency, Rights

  "Democratized Holiness: Yom Kippur And Moral Responsibility" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

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• The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.

  Jean Genet

  Imagination, Political, Denial

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.

  Andy Sawford

  Children, Focus, Helping

  "How Whitehall betrayed social workers" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not going to go around putting pronouns on everything. Things are often deeply compromised by the set of assumptions you bring to the world, which is this black or white, this male or female.

  Roni Horn

  Order, White, Differences

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• Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

  James Fallows

  Jobs, Bureaucracy, Position

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• Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle

  Chip Heath

  Army, Creating, Battle

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.26, Random House

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• Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the earth are not given adequate protection. As a result, economic imbalance is produced, and the inalienable rights and dignity of every human person are ignored.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Rights, Population, Needs

  Message to Mr. Jacques Diouf, Director General of FAO on the Occasion of World Food Day, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

  Amiri Baraka

  Musical, Poetry Is

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• Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

  Maria Montessori

  Weapons, Today, Assuming

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• Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment, as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.

  Nick Brandt

  Photography, Art, Drama

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• Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Important, Climate

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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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• We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. It is on that side of life that it is desirable to put the emphasis at the present time. If that side be strengthened, the other side will take care of itself.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Character, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater significance of football and sports emphasis in general in this country, and that is, I thank God I was warring on the gridirons of the Midwest and not on the battlefields of Europe. I can speak confidently and positively that the players of this country would much more, much rather, struggle and fight to win the Heisman award than the Croix de guerre.

  Nile Kinnick

  Sports, Football, Country

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