It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
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All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.Clive James
A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty.
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She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
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In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.
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Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Clive James
Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.
Clive James
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