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• Americans' greatest fear is that America will turn out to have been a phenomenon, not a civilization.
  -- Shirley Hazzard, "Transit of Venu...
• A recent study shows that people living on the continent of North America suffer 9 times more chronic fatigue and 31 times more chronic depression than do people living on the continent of Asia.
  Interestingly, Asians, on average, eat 20 grams of soy per day, whereas North Americans eat virtually none....
• America was not discovered by Americans, shame on them.
• Algie's last letter to Lidia was written only a few days before he died, but reached her some weeks later, as he had neglected to mark it 'Correo Aereo'.
  In this letter he reported the discovery of several new contradictions in terms and mentioned, among other things, that Piero della Francesca died on the same day that Columbus discovered America, and that there is in Mexico a rat poison called The Last Supper....
• Study reveals that 5 out of 4 Americans have trouble with fractions.
• Fear is the greatest salesman. -- Robert Klei
• The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
  -- Milton Friedma...
• The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
  -- Gunnar Myrdal...
• THE METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY is pleased to announce the new transport zoning system for the Melbourne metropolitan area
  which we have been working on ever since the last zoning system came into effect....