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"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
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"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
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"Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs."
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"Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity."
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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred."
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"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
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"Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today."
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"I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh."
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"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
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"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
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"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
Events
"My first occupation was to map the country."
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"The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion."
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"So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig."
Trouble
"Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death."
Death
"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."
Work
"I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners."
Travel
"Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made."
Cows
"I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation."
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