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Simon Newcomb

"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."

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Donna Grant

"Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England."

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Donna Grant

"If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine."

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Donna Grant

"My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself."

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Donna Grant

"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts."

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Donna Grant

"Horses pretty much broke as a record in England."

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Donna Grant

"In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really."

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Donna Grant

"I've got a farm in England where I breed horses."

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Donna Grant

"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well."

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Donna Grant

"In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me."

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Donna Grant

"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."

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Simon Newcomb
"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope."

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Simon Newcomb
"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."

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Simon Newcomb
"Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment."

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Simon Newcomb
"Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird."

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Simon Newcomb
"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."

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Simon Newcomb
"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it."

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Simon Newcomb
"So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution."

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Simon Newcomb
"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."

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Simon Newcomb
"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."

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Simon Newcomb
"The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents."

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