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• Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.

  Ole Hallesby

  Gratitude, Prayer, Blessed

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Criticism, Would Be

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• The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!

  Ashley Montagu

  Heart, Fate, Damn You

  Ashley Montagu (2001). “The Anatomy of Swearing”, p.35, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Artist, People, May

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.106, Shambhala Publications

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• Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?

  John Mortimer

  Strong, Exclamation Marks, Imagination

  John Mortimer's remarks in defense of record shop proprietor Christopher Seale against obscenity charges for displaying advertisements for Sex Pistols' LP "Never Mind the Bollocks" at Nottingham Magistrates Court, November 14, 1977.

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• Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Ambition, Men

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.76

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• Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.

  Sark

  Exclamation Points, Use, Overused

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• It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

  Patrick Stewart

  Christmas, Generosity, Giving

  "Televised chestnuts: Christmas present". www.cnn.com. November 30, 1999.

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• It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.

  Joey Santiago

  Nice, Exclamation Marks, Ends

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• The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Rain, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• When you're in @#*!#-ing hell, your forehead can feel a wee bit feverish. (By the way, that's the way my wife actually curses. She doesn't use dirty words; she'll literally say "asterisk, pound sign, exclamation point, the-letter-'A'-with-a-circle-around-it, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk.")

  Paul Reiser

  Funny, Dirty, Exclamation Points

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• Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out, 'this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!' But in this exclamation, I should have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in public company-I mean hell.

  John Adams

  Reading, Mean, Should Have

  John Adams (1973). “John Adams: a biography in his own words”

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• In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

  James Thurber

  Reading, Book, Expression

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• I think President Barack Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously not everybody thinks that.

  Cass Sunstein

  Successful, Thinking, President

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I remember reading a book called, "From Niggas To Gods, Part One" by Andre Akil; the book was so easy to read, it was in capital letters with exclamation marks because Akil was screaming at us. It was about getting out of the mindset that this system has put you in. This mindset that makes you feel like your circumstances are permanent and wherever you're born is where you're going to end up. You have to realize who you are.

  Charlamagne Tha God

  Book, Reading, Remember

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• The reaction I got from Sônia [Braga] in less than 48 hours after I sent her the script [Aquarius] was so genuine that it left me stunned. Often when you show people scripts, you get polite, absent-minded reactions, as well as exclamations of "What the f - k is this?".

  Sonia Braga

  Aquarius, People, Scripts

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

  Chaz Bufe

  Jesus, Common, Surprise

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• A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Tired, Exclamation Marks, Question Mark

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• I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.

  Dana Gould

  Party, Thinking, Exclamation Points

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• When you see the veins popping out of my neck, that's an exclamation point.

  Chelsea Handler

  Exclamation Points, Veins, Necks

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• So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

  Miles Kington

  Laughter, Reading, Writing

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• You feel your own life - your heart, your mind, your body, your sexuality, the people and things you are connected to - and you spontaneously fill with the exclamation: "God, it feels great to be alive!" That's delight.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Heart, People, Mind

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• All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Exclamation Marks, Ideas, Skulls

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• Keep your exclamation points under control!

  Henry Miller

  Exclamation Points, Emotion

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• We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Animal, Glasses

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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