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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."
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"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere."
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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."
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"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."
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"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
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"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."
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"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields."
Gardening
"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
Birds
"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."
Nature
"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."
People
"Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams."
Play
"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
Numbers
"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."
Day
"You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter."
Country
"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
Flies
"I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology."
Want
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