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- Nov 07, 2020
Colony Quotes
On settlement, history, and shared community.
These colony quotes span speculative fiction about colonizing other worlds and grounded historical detail about a real sugar colony's role in one writer's family history. Compare with our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Farmers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Britain handed over jurisdiction of its former colony to China 20 years ago, the city has operated under the notion of 'one country, two systems.' That increasingly appears to be an empty slogan.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
- Claiming
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- Nov 07, 2020