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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor,… — Jean Cocteau
A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody… — Unknown Author
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. — Mahatma Gandhi
It has always seemed unfair to me that many churches (and some individual Christians) keep careful records on how many converts they make to Christianity,… — Ray Stedman
Going to radio with a rap record prior to going to the consumer is like having no foreplay with your girlfriend. — Lyor Cohen
The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ...… — Frederick Soddy
Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. A religion is a belief… — Martin Amis
When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was… — Roger Bannister
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record. — Roger Bannister
For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right… — Roger Maris
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ... — Stephen Jay Gould
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do… — Stephen Jay Gould
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process… — Stephen Jay Gould
If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to… — Stephen Jay Gould
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in… — Stephen Jay Gould
It is on record that when a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, 'The secret is… — Michael Faraday
I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't get you — Drake
Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not… — Tupac Shakur
I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the… — Ronnie Wood

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