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In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.

Bashar al-Assad

Jesus, Children, Book

""Poverty Is a Greater Concern for Most than a Democratic Constitution"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. August 29, 2005.

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First of all, in many Muslim countries women have incredible amounts of freedom, sometimes more than in some countries in Europe. So you cannot just make a generalized statement about women. Second, Islam is not the problem. It's tradition. It's culture. It's age-old mind-sets that need to be changed.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Country, Europe, Mind

Source: www.glamour.com

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I didn't want to do an electro-class album or complex rap album. I wanted to do something that was kind of like a political statement, but also club jams. I wanted it to be dancy, but intelligent at the same time.

Le1f

Rap, Intelligent, Class

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Inspirational, Relationship, Spiritual

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Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book, Intuition, Literature

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I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.

Orhan Pamuk

Strong, Writing, Want

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The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.

Paul Strand

Artist, World, Endure

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He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

Euripides

Wise, Men, Ideas

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It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.

Timothy Keller

Philosophical, Would Be, Tests

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We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas.

Michael Dell

Running, Loss, Cash Flow

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There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. So, if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

Bertrand Russell

Simple, Thinking, Long

Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.37, Routledge

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As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. I do not mean the sentimental statement that all men are brothers, but that one must feel the oneness of human life.

Swami Vivekananda

Brother, Mean, Men

Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.68, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.

Albert Einstein

Religious, Struggle, Mean

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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That complete statement which is literature.

Virginia Woolf

Literature

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2406, Delphi Classics

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From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.

Jonny Diaz

Song, Writing, Focus

Source: www.beliefnet.com

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One night I walked out of the church when the priest said that we should never have fought the Revolutionary war and every war was bad. It was 4th of July. It was an outrageously political statement. I just never felt right when people in the church would take these overtly political positions especially when I felt like I was a good Christian, I was serving my country, and I just didn't feel like I deserved to be lambasted by the priest on the 4th of July.

Wesley Clark

Christian, Country, War

"'I'm Spiritual. I'm Religious. I'm a Good Christian.'". Interview with Steven Waldman, www.beliefnet.com. December 2003.

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I'm somewhat of a raptivist but I wasn't attempting to make a socio-political statement as much as I was attempting to voice for the voiceless whatever ideas that came to mind if I was in that situation.

Myka 9

Ideas, Voice, Political

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The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

Ronald Reagan

Government, Citizens, Return

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Seek to create change in your life not because something is 'wrong' ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of 'who you are'.

Neale Donald Walsch

Accurate, Who You Are

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Every thought, emotion, and action is a statement about who we are, and who we are becoming. Why not make this statement 'On Purpose'?

Neale Donald Walsch

Why Not, Who We Are, Becoming

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The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as a definite, abstract statement of fact. So it is from the first words...to the last, the works of the Father are declared as facts, not theories.

Anthony W. Ivins

Father, Support, Firsts

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It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

Santiago Calatrava

Needs, Skylines, Height

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I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.

Diane von Furstenberg

Fashion, Trying, Dresses

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You never do things thinking you will make a big statement. It just happens sometimes and you are lucky.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

Thinking, Lucky, Sometimes

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Since those don’t hit financial reports, the opportunities you had but didn’t accept, most people don’t bother thinking about them very much. At least that is a mistake we don’t make. We rub our own noses in our mistakes in blowing opportunities, as we just did.

Charlie Munger

Mistake, Omission, People

BRK Annual Meeting, Morning Session, buffett.cnbc.com. May 1, 2004.

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