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All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well. -- John Henrik Clarke
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote) -- Kurt Hahn
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago. -- James Herriot
Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative. -- George Saunders
Random? You'Â?Â?d almost think we were dealing with an identifiable enemy motivated by a distinct ideology that is drawn verbatim from a particular belief system'Â?Â?s scriptures. Nah . . . -- Andrew C. McCarthy
A key difference between Christianity and Islam is that Muslims believe that the Koran contains verbatim the word of God; it is written in the imperative. This precludes a comparison with Christianity. -- Geert Wilders
My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off. -- Gabriel Iglesias
I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time. -- Al Michaels
If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. -- Chuck Palahniuk

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