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Fairbairn
Angus     (Apr 1823 - Jun 1887)
Eileen     (Jun 1893 - Aug 1981)
James (Heriot's Hospital)     (circa Jun 1804 - Nov 1854)
James (the engraver)     (circa 1820 - Oct 1862)
John     (Apr 1794 - Oct 1864)
John (bookseller of Edinburgh)     (Aug 1738 - Jul 1810)
John (Curator Chelsea Physic Garden)     (Feb 1742 - Dec 1814)
John (Revd m. WILSON, TURNBULL)     (Feb 1808 - Apr 1895)
John Fitzgerald (Mayo Clinic)     (Nov 1922 - Jun 2004)
Robert     (Jun 1841 - Dec 1922)
Robert Brinckerhoff     (May 1818 - Jan 1899)
Seager C     (Jan 1914 - Feb 1999)
Thomas     (Aug 1820 - Oct 1884)
William (Schoolmaster, Bowden; m. Margaret SCOTT)     (circa Apr 1756 - Mar 1810)
William (Sir) 1st Baronet     (Feb 1789 - Aug 1874)
 
  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    — Abraham Lincoln
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    — Cary Grant
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

    — E. B. White
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    — e. e. cummings
  • What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

    — Saint Augustine
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    — Mark Twain
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    — Henry David Thoreau
  • If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

    — John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
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    — John Adams
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    — Abraham Lincoln
  • History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

    — ?Santayana?
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    — Last of the Summer Wine
  • Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

    — Terry Pratchett
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    — Terry Pratchett
  • .. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

    — Petronius (210 BC)
  • The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

    — Proust
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    — William J. H. Boetcker
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    — Lorna 1992
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    — George Bernard Shaw
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    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon
  • The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

    — Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"