“Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]” KindMayCountryStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesFiveSixEuropeTwentiesSouthSpeciesOther CountriesFifteenSnakesBoastPoisonousSouth AmericaRattlesnakesPoisonous Snakes Author:Will Cuppy
“You probably heard about the big prisoner swap with Cuba. A man who has been incarcerated in Havana for five years is back home in the United States. And we sent them some prisoners. The deal still has to be approved by President Obama and Bud Selig.” MenYearsHas BeensStillsStatesHomeBigsPresidentUnitedDealsUnited StatesFiveHeardFive YearsPrisonerPresident ObamaCubaBudBack HomeApprovedHavana Author:David Letterman
“A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!” United StatesFiveGenerationsRacismEnglishmenIrishmen Author:Barbara Chase-Riboud
“Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.” Has BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesFiveFeetWestAtmosphereIslandsPoisonTallPollutionNeedlesVirginiaContributingOhioCarolinaPennsylvaniaNorth CarolinaIllinoisOver 50West VirginiaEpaRhode Island Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.” YearsStatesUnitedMillionsUnited StatesFivePercentSevenShipsContainersCargo Author:Irwin Redlener
“There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at each of those 11 states over the last 50 years, and I took their current economic metrics and their metrics for the five years before they put in the progressive income tax... Every single state that introduced a progressive income tax has declined as an overall share of the U.S. economy.” YearsStatesLastsUnitedUnited StatesEconomyFiveShareEconomicTaxesCurrentsIncomeFive YearsProgressiveIncome TaxMetrics Author:Arthur Laffer
“This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.” StatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesFiveCostCriticismTwentiesRidiculousCelebrationTwenty FiveInauguration Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“You are not exposed to one chemical at a time, but a complex mixture of chemicals that changes day by day, hour by hour, depending on where you are and the environment you are in... In the United States alone it is estimated that over 72,000 different chemicals are used regularly. Two thousand five hundred new chemicals are introduced annually-and of these, only 15 are partially tested for their safety. Not one of the chemicals in use today has been adequately tested for these intergenerational effects that are initiated in the womb.” Has BeensTwoDifferentStatesUseTodayUsedHoursUnitedUnited StatesEnvironmentFiveEffectsThousandHundredSafetyComplexesEnvironmentalWhere You AreChemicalsExposedPollutionTestedWombMixtures Author:Theo Colborn
“The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.” PersonsStillsStatesUsedBitsTermUnitedBehindsUnited StatesFiveMinutesEnglandTwentiesLocalsIdiotOfficialsShopsCategoriesClothingsAcceptableFive MinutesLunaticTwenty FiveDeficiencyOutdatedImbecilesEuphemismDisadvantagedFauxFaux Pas Book:Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife Source: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
“The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.” WayYearsHumansHeartTwoStatesAmericaOrderFoundOpportunityNaturalUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpDemocracyFiveGrowingEconomicThousandHundredIdealsDemocraticArchitectureUnited States Of AmericaHuman HeartEconomic OrderOrganic Architecture Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“In the United States economic system you can lose big or you can win big. If you lose you wind up wearing a Hefty bag and sleeping in a doorway. If you win you can have sex with Catherine Zeta Jones when you're seventy-five.” IfsStatesBigsWinningSexLosesSleepUnitedUnited StatesFiveEconomicWindBagsSeventiesDoorwaysEconomic SystemsSleeping InYou Can WinZeta Author:Richard Jeni
“The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee. . . . The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.” StatesGovernmentWantedFightingUnitedUnited StatesFiveGroupsHundredShotsWake UpTwentiesSmellAcceptedCoffeeRebelSyriaSeventiesIsisTwenty Five Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif