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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
-- Charlie McCarthy...
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
-- John O'Hara...
America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its name to "America".
-- Mike Harding...
American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking.
It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the differe...
Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
-- James Michener, "Space...
An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the President but is always polite to traffic cops.
An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.
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An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away.
An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean.
He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint....

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