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“Sir, The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.”
Source : "The Cambridge Planetary Handbook". Book by Michael E. Bakich, 2000.
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“Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.”
Source : "The Do's and Don't's of Collecting High-End Watches" by Robert Frank, www.cnbc.com. December 12, 2012. 
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“We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.”
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“The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.”
Source : Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage
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“I think what happens sometimes is, unfortunately, it's a scary thing for men to admit that they want equality or even to say the word feminist because there's a lot of fear that they're going to say the wrong thing.”
Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
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“The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.”
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“I've known Jennifer [Salke] for so long. Before I was a writer, I did garden design, and I designed Jennifer's garden, many years ago. I've known her for a really long time. So the pitch was not really about that.”
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“(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.”
