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Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark. William Henry Ashley
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As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment.
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After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.
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On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.
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We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.
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The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
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The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.
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We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.
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We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller. Bob Iger
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Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes. Yotam Ottolenghi
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Frankly speaking, I decided to become a businessman at the moment when I understood that it is possible, because I grew up in a country where it was not possible. There existed even a special article in the penal code of the Soviet Union which punished entrepreneurial activity.
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The article was how to deal with a difficult school board member, and they defined that as someone who felt they were the voice of the people and consistently challenged board decisions.
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The article said that since the Upper West Side lost Charivari (an expensive clothing retailer) and the China Club (a nightspot), it's equivalent to 'a mall in Iowa,' Jerry Seinfeld
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The article also claimed that Mr Edmonds was using a romantic relationship with Ms Simmons for PR reasons in order to counter his image as a downcast loser to help his efforts to re-launch himself as a television presenter.
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My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest critic of the hypesters, because it's dangerous when fields get overhyped. Craig Venter
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Most email I get is from readers suggesting links they think might be of interest or people submitting articles or ideas for articles.
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When the article comes out, I realize two things. One is, 'Hey I really was somebody.' And two, boy I've got a lot of friends that I thought I couldn't call anymore.
quotations
Proverbs are potted wisdom.
quotations
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
quotations
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce
quotations
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. Barbara Pym
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Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks. Paul Eldridge
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. Samuel Johnson
quotation-marks want hyphens
Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips? Martin Gardner
quotation-marks mark quotations
Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah! James Joyce
quotation-marks mark quotations
Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”' William Safire
rifles
Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle. Bob Dylan
rifle valuable
I think it was just as valuable as someone out there with a rifle in their hand.
rifles association world-affairs
I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association. Howard Dean
rifles citizens subjects
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen. Jeff Cooper
rifles prison murder
It appears that the murder rate inside prisons is ten times higher than that outside prisons. It must be due to all those Kalashnikov rifles that are issued to prisoners upon their incarceration.
rifles members complaints
Occasionally I'll just pull out a rifle and shoot one of my audience members. So far there have been no complaints filed. Thom Yorke
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[Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs. Shimon Peres
speaks
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter. Emile M. Cioran
speaks
On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind. Olga Kurylenko
speaks
To be that disciplined about it speaks volumes.
speaks-out political secret
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master. Chanakya
speaks-out careers voice
It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers. Chaka Khan
speaks-out willing direct
I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out. Bev Perdue
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When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot! August Strindberg
speaks tongue truth
Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth
speaks-out abuse excess
We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right. Camille Paglia