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That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

~Charles Babbage

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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

~Charles Babbage

Topics: Ability Attraction Cannot Circumstance Coupled England Even Exertion Fail Hold Law Obtaining Out Profession Reward Seems Strongest Talent Though Which

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Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

~Charles Churchill

Topics: Country England Faults Her She Still Will

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Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

~Charles E. Wilson

Topics: Become Canada Development England Enterprise First Furthermore Had Here Intellectual Land Less Origin Same Spirit Throughout Virile Well Which While

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I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

~Charles Keating

Topics: Born England London Really Which I Was Born

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National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of our population favored a similar course for America.

~Charles Lindbergh

Topics: America Course England Favored France Germany Less National Our Percent Polls Population Similar Than War

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Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.

~Charles Lindbergh

Topics: Allied America Armies Axis Certain Cost Could Country Draw England Entered Europe Even Improbable Invade Large One Thing Our Overwhelm Paying Portion Powers Responsibility She Shift Shoulders Thing Waging War

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When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

~Charles Lyell

Topics: Cast England Ever Had He Most Once Professor Return Skull

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Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

~Charles Stewart Parnell

Topics: England Fragment Geographical Ireland Nation Should Treated Why

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Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

~Charles Sturt

Topics: Cheap England Farming Sydney

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