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"My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry."
Family
"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."
Age
"More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to."
People
"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."
Home
"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."
Economy
"Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains."
Boston
"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."
Time
"I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting."
Science
"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression."
Expression
"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."
Thought
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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Personal Development
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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Personal Development
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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Personal Development
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