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• I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

  Alan Price

  Guitar, Use, Chords

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• Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

  Edwin Newman

  Mean, Talking, Mind

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• The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.

  Michel de Certeau

  Art, Journey, Hiking

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Gains, Supplements

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• In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

  William Osler

  Science, Men, Pneumonia

  Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Medicine in the Nineteenth Century'

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• The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution. It is not just a matter of understanding the general laws derived by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin from their extensive study of real life and revolutionary experience, but of studying their standpoint and method in examining and solving problems.

  Mao Zedong

  Real, Law, Understanding

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.155, Lulu.com

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• Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root in their minds, so that they do not know how to use it and their class feelings remain as of old. Others are very conceited and having learned some book-phrases, think them terrific and are very cocky; but whenever a storm blows up, they take a stand very different from that of the workers and the majority of the peasants. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.

  Mao Zedong

  Book, Cocky, Blow

  Zedong Mao (1967). “Speech at the Chinese Communist Party's National Conference on Propaganda Work: March 12, 1957”

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• The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' - by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.

  John Barth

  Love, Reading, Mean

  "Chimera". Book by John Barth, 1972.

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• Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith.

  Francois Quesnay

  Freedom, Government, Laissez Faire

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• Thus when I have to summarize naturalized spirituality in a single phrase, it is this: the thoughtful love of life.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Spiritual, Love Life, Thoughtful

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Equality, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe bets; if they've been around for 2,000 years, there's a reason. It's often a title or just a phrase within the text that will compel me to adapt it.

  Mary Zimmerman

  Years, Usa, Titles

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• The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can best phrase what he wishes to communicate to the patient; and, at the same time, observing the general pattern of the events being communicated. In addition to that, to make notes which will be of more than evocative value, or come anywhere near being a verbatim record of what is said, in my opinion is beyond the capacity of most human beings.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Mean, Science, Wish

  Harry Stack Sullivan (1953). “The collected works”

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• Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally.

  Dietrich Mateschitz

  Marketing, Acting, Needs

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• Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Talking

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• True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

  Henry Scougal

  Real, Soul, Unions

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• Condoleezza Rice was confirmed by a vote of 85, 13, despite a contentious but futile protest vote by democrats. By the way, for a fun second term drinking game, chug a beer every time you hear the phrase 'contentious but futile protest vote by democrats.' By the time Jeb Bush is elected, you'll be so wasted you won't even notice the war in Syria.

  Jon Stewart

  Fun, War, Drinking

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• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, What If, Criticism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

  Horace

  Art, Greek, Genius

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• Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase - 'Patria o muerte, venceremos.' It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.

  Mitt Romney

  Doe, Cuba, Stealing

  "Presidential candidate bungles speech in Miami". Beth Reinhard, The Miami Herald, March 19, 2007.

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• My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

  Cassandra Clare

  Snakes, Police, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.930, Simon and Schuster

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• All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Character, Men, Thinking

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.114, London : H. Colburn

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• It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.

  Walter Bagehot

  Government, Criticism, Majesty

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• I do feel as if I'm living a blessed life at the moment. I've been thinking about the phrase 'living a dream,' because that's exactly what is happening. I'm just trying to go with the flow and take each day as it comes, otherwise I might freak out at all the things that have happened recently.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Dream, Blessed, Thinking

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• If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

  Jan Garbarek

  Keys, Trying, Sound

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