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• I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense.

  Eddie Sutton

  Thinking, Differences, Defense

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• Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

  William James

  Apology, Opportunity, Men

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.134, Booklassic

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• Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

  Aga Khan IV

  God, Islam, Purpose

  "Islam Is a Faith of Reason". Interview with Stefan Aust and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. October 12, 2006.

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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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• Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.

  William Powell

  Running, Country, Taken

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 78, 1971.

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• Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

  Charles Bukowski

  Special, Facts, Needs

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.296, Zondervan

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• Oh am I late? No, I already graduated
  And you can live through anything if Magic made it
  They say I talk with so much emphasis
  Ooh they so sensitive

  Kanye West

  Hip Hop, Magic, Sensitive

  Song: Can't Tell Me Nothing, Album: Graduation, 2007

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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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• "She can't do sums a bit!" the Queens said together, with great emphasis. "Can you do sums?" Alice said, turning suddenly on the White Queen, for she didn't like being found fault with so much. The Queen gasped and shut her eyes. "I can do Addition, if you give me time-but I can do Subtraction, under any circumstances!"

  Lewis Carroll

  Time, Queens, Eye

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice In Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hunting of the Snark and Alice Underground”, p.144, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Ornaments, Realization, Matter

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”

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• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  Caity Lotz

  People, Hot, Too Much

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

  Jimmy Choo

  Names, Ideas, Design

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• Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Voice, Pieces, Rehearsal

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography”, p.114

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• Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

  Dalai Lama

  Strong, Media, Despair

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• Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.

  Alison Thompson

  Greatness, Eugenics, Blood

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• In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

  Adyashanti

  Knowing, Meditation, Listening

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• Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel.

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Doe, Christianity, Bonhoeffer

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• One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of the Black Muslim movement. African blood, African origin, African culture, African ties. And you'd be surprised - we discovered that deep within the subconscious of the black man in this country, he is still more African than he is American.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Men, Blood

  Malcolm X (1992). “February 1965: the final speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Order, Democratic, Impunity

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• Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Different, Birth Control

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• I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Spiritual, School

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• From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.

  Hugo Black

  Men, Law, Justice

  "Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 18, 1963.

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• The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.

  Howard Zinn

  Justice, Political, Support

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.8, Routledge

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• In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.

  Carl Sandburg

  Stress, Average, Stories

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• In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams and a strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world.

  Daniel Goleman

  Strong, Jobs, Team

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.29, Bantam

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