Danh ngôn của Bill Bryson
There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
Chưa bao giờ có thời điểm thuận lợi hơn để trở thành tội phạm ở Mỹ hơn trong suốt 13 năm Cấm. Trong một cơn đột quỵ, chính phủ Mỹ đã đóng cửa ngành công nghiệp lớn thứ năm ở Hoa Kỳ - sản xuất rượu - và giao nó cho bọn tội phạm - một việc khá đáng chú ý.
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- There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
- 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.
- We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
- Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
- An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
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- Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.
- When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
- Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.
- The supply of medicines for our servicemen and women should not be dependent on the decisions of the Chinese Government.
- This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.