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Let us clear any romantic notion of daredeviltry from our minds. It is nothing less than a sordid crime of violence inspired by vast greed.


Edmund Davies

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JONATHAN DAVIES In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic...
PAUL DAVIES It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.
NORMAN DAVIES People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of Fra...
NORMAN DAVIES It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthe...
LYNN DAVIES At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it con...
NORMAN DAVIES Sitting with him, they wanted to do network, they wanted to do syndication, ... I've got to get that...
MICHAEL DAVIES And he's funny. He's disarmingly funny.
MICHAEL DAVIES I was fixated by Ken,
MICHAEL DAVIES What I want to explore is Ken Jennings as Peter Parker or Clark Kent, Spider-Man or Superman -- the ...
MICHAEL DAVIES There's a freight shortage at the moment. They're going to struggle getting a lot of it over there.
MICHAEL DAVIES At the moment, it still seems like a very slow process, ... I'm not sure that it will start up again...
MICHAEL DAVIES We gave away a $5,200 toilet. It's just the most fantastic toilet you could ever imagine. It has an ...
MICHAEL DAVIES We are asking for people to rummage through their attics and storerooms to see if they have anything...
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