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Simon Newcomb

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

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Amber Hurdle

"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair."

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Amber Hurdle

"Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up."

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Simon Newcomb
"Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name."

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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
"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."

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Simon Newcomb
"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes."

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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
"As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest."

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Simon Newcomb
"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."

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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
"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck."

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Simon Newcomb
"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."

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