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"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."

"We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below."

"Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share."

"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."

"I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage."

"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."

"I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country."

"I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!"
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"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."


"It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined."


"Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops."


"We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors."


"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."


"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
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