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“I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.”

Thinking Needs Humans Soul Language Church Records Aspect Communicate Appropriate Neglected Human Soul Respectful

Book:Will Oldham on Bonnie

Source: Will Oldham on Bonnie

“The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.”

Way Humans Doe Records Journey Particular Perspective Factual

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.”

Humans Country Records Rights Democratic Killing Human Rights Instance Republic Persecution Congo Sri Lanka Guatemala Democratic Republic

Author:David Suzuki

“....chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases, survival can be "prolonged" beyond the point at which death would be expected without treatment. This type of survival is not the same as a cure or even restored quality of life.”

Humans Would Be Quality Cases Records Achieve Type Survival Cancer Expected Cures Treatment Quality Of Life Chemotherapy Remission

Author:John Diamond

“What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.”

Humans Records Rights Happened Prison Human Rights Iraq Conventions Violation Monstrous Geneva Abu Ghraib Geneva Convention Violation Of Human Rights

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.”

Humans Race Records Regret Flight Human Race Aviation

Author:Winston Churchill

“When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.”

Humans Said Sports Records News Celebrate Journalism Accomplishment Reports Sections Good News

Book:And so it goes

Source: And so it goes

“Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm not going to deny that there are errors, because in any system that involves human beings or technology, there are going to be errors.”

Humans Stills Government Process Human Beings Technology Records Paper Errors Deny Backgrounds Checks Agency Manuals Government Agencies Background Checks

Author:James Lee

“A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.”

Humans Wells Heart Done Moving Emotion Records Effects Emotional Painting Moved Ill Landscape Human Heart Splendour Landscape Painting

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.”

Firsts Humans Character Results Opinion Records Currents Permanent Novelists Accurate Phases

Author:John Dos Passos

“Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.”

Men World Humans Book Watches Records Paper Print Shelves Human Spirit Librarian Keepers

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.”

Humans Different Light Eye Life Is Three Records Human Life Pairs

Book:Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen

Source: Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen