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Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.


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ROBERTSON DAVIES Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all su...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinar...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a...
DAVE DAVIES So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably sa...
NORMAN DAVIES I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
RAY DAVIES In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybod...
NICK DAVIES The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together ...
NICK DAVIES The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, w...
NORMAN DAVIES You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
LYNN DAVIES The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries wher...
NORMAN DAVIES There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the...
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