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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

~Aaron Klug

Topics: Cambridge Colonies Go Laboratory Physics Place Someone

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I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

~Ace Frehley

Topics: Believe Colonies Gonna Human Human Race Moon Only Race Setting Space Start Stations Survive Then Up Way I Believe I Believe That

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In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Appearance Colonies Labor Same System

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In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Active Both Colonies Counties Each Government Had Local Local Government Middle Other Present Relation Some States System Towns Were Western Which

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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Came Colonies Era Government New New Era Trade Well

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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: American Brought Colonies Conquest Contact Dutch Free Had Institutions Later Netherlands Residence Settlers Wise

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The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Colonies Direct Feel Had Little Occasion Prerogative Resent Royal

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The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Actually Because Colonies Departments England Government Had More Only Own Participation People Seemed Significant Three

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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Also American Back Beginning Case Colonies Conventions Early Essentially Europe Gospel Imported Jazz Jazz Music Jubilee Jumps Modification Music Musical Old Original Settlers Songs Time Vernacular

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In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Adult Any Befall Colonies Condition Could Days Early Early Days Embarrassing England Greater Ill More New New England Puritan Temporal Than Unmarried

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