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- The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
- Charles Luckman
- What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
- Margot Asquith
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
- Dan Rather (1931 - )
- Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990)
- What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
- Frank Moore Colby
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