Quotes
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Augustus Hill : Junk mail. Selling you this, promising you that. Publisher's Clearing House, you got your American Family sweepstakes, you got Ed McMahon warning you to open that envelope cause you could be a millionaire. And you know you can never win so you toss it. But what if you made the wrong choice? What if this was the one in a trillion time you win?
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Augustus Hill : "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." So says the United States Postal Service in their sunshine motto adapted from the ancient Greek historian Herodytus. Now back then, "swift" coulda meant a year and a day. Now? Ten am the next morning anywhere, from here to Kukabamba. People all over the globe every afternoon stand at their mailboxes, wondering what might be inside. You never know what to expect. And in Oz, most times, the best part is the expectation.
