"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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"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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"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

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"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."

Henry Reed, English Writer

Events, Sense

"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."

John Lothrop Motley, American Historian

Events, Leading

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

John Burns, English Activist

Events, Will

"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

Events, Nerves, Quiet, Trifles

"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."

Collin C. Peterson, American Politician

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"Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future."

Walter Lord, American Author

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"But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems."

Paul Berg, American Scientist

Events, Plants

"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Events, Fiction, Intimacy

"It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events."

Dario Fo, Italian Playwright

Events, Limits, Open, Talk

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"My first occupation was to map the country."

Country

"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

"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 equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion."

Fact

"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

"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."

Evil

"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

"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