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• In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound

  John Grierson

  Real, Profound, Use

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• Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from
  the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from
  what your teacher taught you to do in school.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, School, Ideas

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• One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."

  Max Lucado

  Horror, Hell

  Max Lucado (2012). “Just Like Jesus Devotional: A Thirty-Day Walk With the Savior”, p.132, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The metal of economic theory is in Marx's pages immersed in such a wealth of steaming phrases as to acquire a temperature not naturally its own.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Temperature, Pages, Wealth

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.21, Routledge

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• After listening to modern tirades against the great creeds of the Church, one receives a shock when one turns to the Westminster Confession... and discovers that in doing so one has turned from shallow modern phrases to a "dead orthodoxy" that is pulsating with life in every word. In such orthodoxy there is life enough to set the whole world aglow with Christian love.

  John Gresham Machen

  Christian, Listening, Church

  John Gresham Machen (1923). “Christianity and Liberalism”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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• If I take a lick from so and so, I'm not going to get that many variations from it, because their phrases are just based on a scale. That's why I say Wes Montgomery has more substance than others. I find myself listening to the older players. You see one bar of theirs and you can get one hundred more licks out of it.

  Emily Remler

  Player, Listening, Bars

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• The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.

  Yip Harburg

  Divorce, Romance, Parks

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• I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Long, Doe, Contradiction

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.71, Library of America

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• I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.

  Dave Barry

  Real, School, Two

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Self, Doe

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.312, SIU Press

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• Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

  Thomas Nashe

  Flower, Angel, Honey

  1592 Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Devil, 'An Invective Against Enemies of Poetr y'.

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• I love writing. I've always been drawn to that and felt a particular joy in it - like the phrase in Chariots of Fire: "God made me fast and when I run I feel his pleasure." God gave me a love of writing and (I knew) to do it I would feel God's pleasure.

  Randall Wallace

  Running, Writing, Fire

  "Comparing “Heaven is for Real” with “God’s Not Dead” + an interview with “Heaven” writer/director Randall Wallace". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid.

  N. T. Wright

  Spiritual, Kids, Journey

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

  Rachel Carson

  Arrogance, Neanderthals, Silent Spring

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me," for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.... It is wonderful how we get about the streets without being wounded by these delicate and glancing weapons, a man can so nimbly whip out his rapier, or without being noticed carry it unsheathed. Yet it is rare that one gets seriously looked at.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Men, Society

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers”

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• You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'

  Ronald Reagan

  Enemy, Pay, Peace Through Strength

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

  Salman Rushdie

  Perception, Lenses, Perceive

  "Imaginary Homelands". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1992.

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• A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Believe, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.37, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Bullying, Hate, Expression

  "Rushdie and After" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2012.

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• The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man as a scapgoat for society's ills. They pretend it's about traditional family values, but that's a bullshit phrase that means nothing to me. They like to use us all. They use pro-life as a way to hate women and slam women, dressed up in the nobility of saving unborn fetuses. I think it's just misogyny.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Mean, Gay

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• New Rule: News organizations have to stop using the phrase: "We go beyond the headlines." That's your job, dummy. You don't see American Airlines saying, "We land our jets on the runway"!

  Bill Maher

  Jobs, Land, Organization

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.140, Rodale

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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, Pascal

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• I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when someone is 95 years old or 19 years old. . . When I was the lead singer of the California Raisins commercials there was a traditional actor there as well and he would do all these body movements without saying anything because he was "acting." And the only acting the microphone picked up on was silence.

  Jim Cummings

  Years, Voice, California

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• The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Real, Mean, Passion

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