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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.

Eden Robinson

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To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

Joe Baca

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I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together.

Melissa Joan Hart

LiveTogetherGetGet Married

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

John Sherman Cooper

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My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

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I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.

Robin S. Sharma

HumbleSimpleManSmallSmall Town

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

Doris Lessing

StarsPeopleRoyaltyNeverPleasure

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.

Arne Jacobsen

WorkGoodBusinessTodayMeGo

Regime is made up of people, so I do put faces to regimes and governments, so I feel that all human beings have the right to be given the benefit of the doubt, and they also have to be given the right to try to redeem themselves if they so wish.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

Ashthon Jones

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Penelope Lively

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What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.

Paul Theroux

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If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

Seymour Cray

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