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"The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know."
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"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

"More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to."

"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."

"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."

"Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains."

"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."

"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."

"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his 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."
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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."

"Knowledge' may be there but 'correctness' is required along with it. If you have 'knowledge' but don't have the 'correctness'; you will go to moksha, but others will not gain any benefit!"

"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."

"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."

"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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