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I learned how to say 'I love you' in Ukranian, but there are so few Ukranians I know that I love. --Bill Bade, USA |
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Why are you torturing your map? --Linda Cole, on our map of the US covered with push pins |
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England and America are two countries divided by a common language. --George Bernard Shaw |
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The Middle Eastern states aren't nations, they're quarrels with borders. --PJ O'Rouke |
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In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. --Jonathan Raban |
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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. --Dan Quayle |
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Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there. --Yakov Smirnoff |
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Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. --Oscar Wilde |
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Traditionally most of Australia's imports come from overseas. --Keppel Enderbery |
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Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it. --Dylan Thomas |
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In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One. --Yakov Smirnoff |
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. --George Bernard Shaw |
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country. --Ian Rush |
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If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? --Steven Wright |
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I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. --Dan Quayle |
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I went to New Zealand but it was closed. |
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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. --David Letterman |
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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. --P. J. O'Rourke |
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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union. --P.J. O'Rourke |
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Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. --Charles Schultz |
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