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  • Where all the women are strong, all the men are good- looking, and all the children are above average.

    - (Gary Edward) Garrison Keillor
    from 1974  His description of the fictional mid- Western town Lake Wobegon, used regularly in  A Prairie Home Companion.

  • This isthe land God gave to Andy Stewartwe have our inheritance. There shall be no ardour, there shall be indifference. There shall not be excellence, there shall be the average. We shall be the intrepid hunters of golf balls.

    -A'Ghobhainn
      'TheWhite Air of March'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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