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  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

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

    — E. B. White
  • I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

    — 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
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    — 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
  • Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

    — John Adams
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

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

    — ?Santayana?
  • What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

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

    — Terry Pratchett
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

    — 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
  • You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

    — William J. H. Boetcker
  • Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

    — Lorna 1992
  • No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

    — George Bernard Shaw
  • A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon
Some descendants of Trotter & Jean (FAIRBAIRN) FAIRBAIRN.
Married at Ladykirk, moved to Kelso thence to Sunderland
Trotter Fairbairn
Jean Fairbairn
Thomas Fairbairn
John Fairbairn
Alexander Fairbairn
Jane Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Barbara Fairbairn
Margaret Fairbairn
Mary Fairbairn
John Fairbairn
Jane Fairbairn
Trotter Fairbairn
Margaret Fairbairn
William Fairbairn
Thomas Fairbairn
Arabella Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
Mary Fairbairn
Barbara Fairbairn
Mary Ayre
Thomas Fairbairn
Mary Fairbairn
Margaret Fairbairn
Isabella Oates
Sarah O. Fairbairn
Trotter Fairbairn
Eleanor Sinclair
William S. Fairbairn
Jane E. Fairbairn
George Godley
Jane Godley
Mary A. Forster or Rickaby
Eleanor Bailey
Mary A. Wanless
Mary J. Fairbairn
Jane A. Fairbairn
Elizabeth ?Lawson or ?Stephenson
Thomas Fairbairn
John Fairbairn
Robert Fairbairn
John o. R. o. G. Crouch or Kipling or Thompson or Wood
Mary A. Goodenough
David S. Fairbairn
Robert E. Fairbairn
Arthur R. Fairbairn
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