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• History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

  Alan Bennett

  Men, Buckets, Incapability

  The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

  Lance Ito

  Media, Cameras, Enough Time

  "Ito: 'What you see is what's there'". www.cnn.com. October 24, 1995.

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• Ordinary Bibles often include cross-references and brief concordances; Study Bibles include much more, all bound up in one fat volume, so that readers can find a lot of useful explanation on each page without having to hunt through Bible dictionaries and commentaries and the like.

  D. A. Carson

  Ordinary, Pages, Study

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical text of Sanskrit literature, afforded me ample opportunities of gaining close contact with Sanskrit savants of Kashmir, the land where traditional learning of Hindu India had flourished in old times greatly and survived until recent years.

  Aurel Stein

  Opportunity, Years, Land

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• History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Running, Men, Stories

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• The idea that relationships are not a strategy is potent; and the sad commentary proceeds to say that often relationships are seen as a strategy, a means to accomplish great things - except love and relationship are not what is really wanted. We want to appear relational so people will like what we have to offer. It's the difference between wanting a good marriage and loving the person you married.

  Scot McKnight

  School, Mean, Ideas

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• The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.

  Jay Roach

  New York, Long, Track

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

  Faye Wattleton

  Women, Our Society, Way

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• Everybody wants to have a commentary on my life, like they are actually living it. Cool, comment all you want but I'm the one that's living it.

  Katy Perry

  Want, Comment, Actually Living

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• Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Biblical, Spiders

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

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• The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Years, Giving

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• Science is... a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective... in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other.

  Francis Collins

  Powerful, Real, Religion

  "Religion and Ethics" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. June 16, 2000.

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• Gryffindor leads by eighty points to zero, and look at that Firebolt go! Potter’s really putting it through its paces now, see it turn — Chang’s Comet is just no match for it, the Firebolt’s precision-balance is really noticeable in these long —” “JORDAN! ARE YOU BEING PAID TO ADVERTISE FIREBOLTS? GET ON WITH THE COMMENTARY!

  J. K. Rowling

  Zero, Long, Balance

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• And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as he has been and ever will be, time without end. His coming shall be like the sharp edge of the plow, turning our lives in furrows form out of the places where we lie in our silence. The breaker of binds; the forger of chains. The maker of futures; the unshaper of destiny. -from Commentaries on the Prophecies of the Dragon, by Jurith Dorine, Right Hand to the Queen of Almoren, 742 AB, the Third Age

  Robert Jordan

  Queens, Lying, Destiny

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Dragon Reborn: Book 3 of the Wheel of Time”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.

  Michael Grant

  Black, Giants, Fitting

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• To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a movie, or a record. He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration, and any commentary of the work beyond that is nothing more than pure individual opinion and should not be considered relevant to the work itself.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Art, Book, Records

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.185, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions.” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary.” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To the pimp ride!

  Kathy Reichs

  Running, Loss, Pimp

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• There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Scarcity, Interpretation

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1093, 谷月社

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• A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Heritage, Slavery, Continuing

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• Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the water" and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you don't lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding.

  Brad Warner

  Buddhist, Reflection, Water

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki, the author who wrote Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. He doesn't mention sanity at all but I think that one possible definition of enlightenment would be a kind of profound sanity, where being insane is no longer an option.

  Brad Warner

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• My commentary's hilarious, not witty.

  Richelle Mead

  Witty

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.81, Penguin

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