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"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."
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"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."
Quality
"Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact."
Creativity
"We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles."
Fact
"The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them."
Boys
"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved."
Dance
"Advice to persons about to marry - don't."
Advice
"A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind."
Truth
"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
Location
"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it."
Knowledge
"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port."
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"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."
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"A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School."
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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
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"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
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"There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America."
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"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."
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"Paris ain't much of a town."
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"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
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"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."
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"In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained."
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