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"I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid."

"It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself."

"In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings."

"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."

"Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States."
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"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."

"To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone."

"Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America."

"The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves."

"When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago."

"The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose."

"There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating."

"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."
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