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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Always Builds Came Certain Certain Things Different Different Things Fiction Happen Historians How Learn Like Little Little Things Looks Making Map Novelist Painting Plot See Shapes Sort Things Through Tiny Up Whereas You

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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

~Abu Bakr

Topics: Allah Build Builds God He Him House Paradise Way Who Will

Keywords: Abandoning


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Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

~Adora Svitak

Topics: Ask Because Builds Children Empathy Fun Human Human Spirit Important Parents Read Spirit Students Tell Tests Them Think Too Understand Very You I Think

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My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and they auto-tune it and make it into a quite interesting musical number. And I got one where it builds it into a rap.

~Aidan Gillen

Topics: Actually Builds Get Good Got Interesting Make Musical My Own Number Own Quite Rap Rapping Skills Talk Them Thing Think Where You I Think

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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Apart Bubbles Builds Causes Contagion Critical Dominant Down Euphoria Fall Fear Forces Go Hits Intellectually Look Many Phenomenon Sharply Shocked Size Slowly Sort Started Then Thing Up Very Which

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Reading 'Blood Will Out,' one begins to understand how so many people were duped by Clark Rockefeller. All the imposter needs is some kind of initial agreement that he is who he says he is; thereafter, consensus builds via a network of human relationships.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Agreement Begins Blood Builds Clark Consensus He How Human Human Relationships Initial Kind Many Needs Network Out People Reading Relationships Rockefeller Says So Many People Some Thereafter Understand Via Were Who Will

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Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

~Amy Chua

Topics: Builds Compassion Everything Foundation Love Mother

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'Teenage Wildlife' is just epic. It's, like, five or six minutes long, and it kind of crescendos and builds into this insane vocal of Bowie wailing. I think I would pay $5,000 dollars to see footage of that recording session.

~Anders Holm

Topics: Bowie Builds Dollars Epic Five Footage Insane Just Kind Like Long Minutes Pay Recording See Session Six Teenage Think Vocal Wildlife Would I Think

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In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

~Andie Macdowell

Topics: Acting Attention Because Builds Center Egos Happens Lose Modeling People Reality Sometimes Too Touch Up You

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I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.

~Andrew Mason

Topics: Builds Clout Feel Like Something Teeth Up Your I Feel I Feel Like

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