Here are some (borrowed) witticisms-
"Inflation is the sum of all the variables the economists leave out of their models"- Hazel Henderson, in conversation with Fritzof Capra, quoted in his "Uncommon Wisdom". She is a scathing critic of the way developed countries run their economies.
The Roman Empire declined and fell because it takes all day to say anything in Latin. If your house is on fire or Attila the Hun is at the gate and you've got to stop and think of tenses, cases and conjugations before you can call for help, brother, you're dead. - Dobie Gillis
If you speak three languages, you are trilingual. If you speak two, you are bilingual. If you speak one language, you are American.- Sonny Spoon
If it were not necessary to eat or wear clothes, Russia would be the greatest country in the world.- Yakov Smirnoff
Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.- George Bernard Shaw
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. - Andrei Sakharov
There is no housing shortage in England today. That's just a rumour put about by people who have nowhere to live.- G.L. Murfin
I asked a Burmese man why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded landmines since the war.- Robert Mueller
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Regardless of age group, as an Indian family is out for a walk, the male tends to be a good 10 yards ahead with the other halves (Asrani anyone?) trailing with varying degree of enthusiasm (about the walk or something else?).
Compare that to other cultures (even Chinese) and the unit largely tends to walk 2 or 3 across occupying the large width of a given sidewalk or road making it look like a broad flank attack.
Pods behave weird in humans I suppose.
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