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• I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the…
• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
• The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
• I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat…
• 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…
• Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
• I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a…
• A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not…
• America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping…
• America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.
• Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a…
• Cheapness is a great virtue.

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