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“All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.”

Trying Song Effects Lovers Standards Bird Seasons Saint Tone Organs Repetition Sentimental Crow Mississippi Habitual Comical Quoting Tennyson

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?”

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Author:Galileo Galilei

“Particularly in the final season [of Fringe], when we were shooting seven-day episodes with a reduced budget and big special effects, the team was so polished, by then, that we were able to do it and, I think, with incredible results.”

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Author:John Noble

“I've always wanted to play with this idea - and I didn't want to leave it to the last season, but I wasn't quite sure when it was going to happen - of putting Jax [sons of Anarchy] at the head of the table and the ripple effect on the guys and the loyalties of it and where people land.”

People Want Ideas Play Happens Wanted Lasts Guy Land Effects Son Seasons Tables Loyalty Anarchy Ripple Ripple Effect

Author:Kurt Sutter

“Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved. The second season of Underground does explore Canada's role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.”

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Author:Aisha Hinds

“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.”

May Feelings Nature Environment Effects Produce Seasons Spots Pleasant Autumn Sunny October October And Fall

Book:Passages from the American Note-Books (Annotated Edition)

Source: Passages from the American Note-Books (Annotated Edition)

“In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.”

May Religion Causes Moral Effects Morality Performances Seasons Foundation Lays Leaving Pleasant Breeze Doubtful

Book:Letters: 1793-1813

Source: Letters: 1793-1813

“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.”

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Author:Guillaume Apollinaire

“The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.”

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Book:State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren

Source: State of the Union Addresses of Martin van Buren