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• Abe: [narrating] The story of the Simpson family began in the Old Country.
  I forget which one exactly. My dad would drone on and on about America....
• To Europe she was America, to America she was the gateway of the earth.
  But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world....
• There are revolutions that are sweeping the world and we in America have been in a position of trying to stop them.
  With all the wealth of America, with all of the military strength of America, those revolutions are revolutions against a form of political and economic organization in the countries of Asia and the Middle East that are oppressive....
• A new taste had been acquired and a new appetite began to grow.
  The time had long since arrived to crush the technical intelligentsia, which had come to regard itself as too irreplaceable and had not gotten used to catching instructions on the wing....
• If the death sentence were imposed on all parents who failed to bring up their children properly, Europe could have a whole new experience coming to the frontier, Baltimore, and later move West.
• By the middle 1880's, practically all the roads except those in the South, were of the present standard gauge.
  The southern roads were still five feet between rails....
• During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic.
  His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe....
• The following is a memo from the president of Cyberell Computer Company.
  "All of our customer-service employees recently attended a two-day retreat during which they received retraining in effective customer service....