People living in the city are always baffled by the country folk’s vast knowledge of family connections in the village, just as the country folk marvel at the city dwellers' knowledge of bus and tram routes. Both types of knowledge have practical applications: one protects against fathering a child on a cousin by accident, the the other against having to pay for a taxi home.
The three commandments of capitalism and hunting: don’t tell anyone you’re going hunting; lie low when you’ve made the kill; dispose of the evidence.
Television started with people watching it for entertainment and ended with it watching people for entertainment.
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