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

Quote by Bill Bryson

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My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children...

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children...

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going...

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going...

What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning...

What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning...

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense...

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense...

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think...

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think...

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend...

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend...

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

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

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television...

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television...

A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but...

A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but...

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like...

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like...

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a...

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a...

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I...

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I...

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what...

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what...

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company,...

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company,...

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent...

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent...

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted...

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted...