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- There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
- The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a…
- It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it…
- In my day, the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first…
- Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they…
- But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't…
- It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely…
- It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete…
- If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain…
- To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in…
- We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here…
- Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished…
- So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no…
- Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering…
- The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle