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This is a point known to geology as the KT boundary1 and it marks the time, 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs and roughly half the world's other species of animals abruptly vanish from the fossil record.
~ Bill Bryson
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It is the patchiness of the record that makes each new find look so sudden and distinct from all the others.
~ Bill Bryson
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if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn't choose human beings for the job. But
~ Bill Bryson
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That a word or phrase hasn't been recorded tells us only that it hasn't been recorded, not that it hasn't existed. The
~ Bill Bryson
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On the busiest day, October 7, almost 110,000 people were admitted. At one point, 92,000 were in the building at the same time—the largest number of people ever to be indoors in a single location to that time. Not every visitor was enchanted. William Morris, the future designer and aesthete, then aged seventeen, was so appalled by what he saw as the exhibition's lack of taste and veneration of excess that he staggered from the building and was sick in the bushes.
~ Bill Bryson
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The marriage license itself is lost, but a separate document, the marriage bond, survives. On it Anne Hathaway is correctly identified. Shakespeare's name is rendered as "Shagspere"—the first of many arrestingly variable renderings.
~ Bill Bryson
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The first was the news that if the great American swimmer Buster Crabbe, winner of the 1932 men's 400-meter freestyle, had swum in the present Olympic Games at the same pace he did in 1932 (and admittedly this would be asking a lot, as he has been dead for many years), he would have lost to Ian Thorpe by two full pool lengths. Isn't that amazing?
~ Bill Bryson
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Historically time-stoppers don't have a great win-loss record, although they score high in the sentimental 'doing all the wrong things for the right reasons' stakes.
~ Bill Buford
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They destroyed every playoff opponent and set a record for postseason point differential that still stands.
~ Bill Simmons
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It's one of those songs that makes a good record but it's too much work to make it believable in live performance.
~ Bob Dylan
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Kelly seemed to be just trying to keep the ship from sinking. At a senior staff meeting in early 2018, he announced with pride, "I now know that I will not be the shortest-serving chief of staff. I've now surpassed Reince." Priebus had served 189 days, the shortest tenure of any White House chief of staff in history.
~ Bob Woodward
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Actually you've never voted in a primary except once in your entire life," Bossie said, citing the record.
~ Bob Woodward
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I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.
~ Bram Stoker
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Even then I knew that the Tides were not random. I saw that if I could record and document them, I might be able to predict their appearance. That was the beginning of my Table.
~ Susanna Clarke
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I record here the actions of optical nerves, of taste buds, of sensory perception.
~ Sylvia Plath
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When lovely lady stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray, She brushes her hair with automatic hand And puts a record on the gramophone.
~ T.S. Eliot
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All fear springs from an aversion to being threatened or wronged on some level. And yet it is written that true love holds no record of wrong.
~ Ted Dekker
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All fear springs from an aversion to being threatened or wronged on some level. And yet it is written that true love holds no record of wrong.3 Love does not take wrong into account. There is no fear in love. No polarity. This is Elyon's love, which sees no threat against itself because it is whole and cannot be disturbed or upset by any finite threat.
~ Ted Dekker
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Witnesses are, of course, ambivalent; some of them need record what would otherwise be lost and go to waste, while others need to hunted down and killed before they cant tell what they know; and the man who stands on the grave of the last witness own the truth and is responsible for it, a dangerous trustee.
~ K.J. Parker
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Themes are important to me, but the beats are what catches someone's ear and makes a record a hit, ... The music is more important than anything. You can have instrumental tracks and people will listen to it. But if you put a really good theme to a bad beat, no one will care about it.
~ Kanye West
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The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.
~ Marvin Ammori
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Fans are invested in everything about you now. Back in the day, they just heard your record and saw your video.
~ Kandi Burruss
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I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was something that was just mine. But when I was 20 or 21, I started writing songs and felt the itch to make a record.
~ Aubrie Sellers
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When I think about it, if somebody was to pass Pete Rose's record just playing in Japan, that would be a bigger accomplishment because of the few games they play over there.
~ Ichiro Suzuki
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