When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
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A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his checking account.Bill Bryson
In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe. It is a place of the most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.
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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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Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
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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.
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