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Quote by Simon Newcomb
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. – Simon Newcomb

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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. – Simon Newcomb

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What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed. – Simon Newcomb

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teacher
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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. – Simon Newcomb

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From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit. – Candace Parker

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I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm. – Emeril Lagasse

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You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagans son. – Michael Reagan

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My dad always said he couldnt remember a time when I did not want to act. – Gwyneth Paltrow

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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. – Maxim Gorky

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Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because shes beautiful but dont have anything to talk about, its going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person. – Amanda Peet

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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. – John le Carre

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Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. – Cree Indian Proverb

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