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• For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.

  Paul Stamets

  Years, Europe, Mushrooms

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

  Dave Barry

  Painful Death, America, Causes

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• About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Years, America

  James A. Michener (1993). “Two complete novels”, Outlet

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• The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.

  Jared Diamond

  America, Chicago, Steel

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.131, Penguin

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• The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Thinking, America, Masterpiece

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• If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Taken, America

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• If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Strong, War, Discovery

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• Much of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That's unacceptable. So we're not getting editorial policy, we're not getting a vision of truth. People just don't know what is going on anymore, and that's really dangerous stuff.

  Denis Halliday

  Media, America, People

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• Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Christian, Country, Men

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• Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.

  Marsden Wagner

  America, Important, Bars

  Marsden Wagner (2006). “Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

  Dick Pound

  America, Achievement, Language

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• The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

  Sara Paretsky

  Book, Names, America

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• This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

  William Labov

  America, Vocabulary, Different

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• Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.

  Ann Macbeth

  Independent, America, Enough

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• I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Numbers, America

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Crooked Wood", p. 208), 1977.

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• Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America, they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec city is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.

  Sebastian Bach

  Beautiful, Cities, Shopping

  "Ex-Skid Row Frontman Sebastian Bach on What's Cool in Canada". Interview with Avinash Ramsadeen, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2011.

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• If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.

  George Catlin

  America, Life Is, Visiting

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• White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

  Michael Kimmel

  Men, White Man, America

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• In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Lakes, Order

  "On Fredrick the Great" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1842.

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• Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Sports, Believe, Luxury

  Ronald J. Sider (1977). “Rich Christians in an age of hunger: a Biblical study”, IVP Books

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• When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.

  Robert Bateman

  Flower, Years, America

  "ROBERT BATEMAN: On home life, health, helping wildlife and his art muse". Interview with Carol Crenna, carolcrenna.wordpress.com. October 15, 2012.

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• What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

  Dave Barry

  War, Humorous, Painful Death

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• In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

  Karl Marx

  Independent, White, America

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.329, Cosimo, Inc.

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• South America had been an island continent, far bigger and far more diverse than Australia, for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose just a couple of million years ago. The resulting flood of North American mammals across the new land bridge corresponds in time with the decimation of the native South American fauna. In fact, most large mammals generally considered distinctly South American... are all recent migrants from North America.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Couple, Years, Land

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• Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from ... God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Zero, Mistake, Men

  "A Man. A Legend. A What!?" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. September 23, 1991.

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