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I don't understand anything about America's culture.

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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

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To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

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Regulation creates a moral hazard.

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Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

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Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 14th, 1947

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