- Des Moines
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
- Global Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
- Freeway
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
- Where
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- Nov 07, 2020
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income that would pay for good-quality investigative journalism.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you ever seen Glenn Beck in operation? It is the most terrifying thing. It's so bad that you think he's going to announce in a minute that it's all a great con. He makes Sarah Palin look reasonable and steady.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020