"This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that wed ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadnt said that."

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Source : "Top Gear: Botswana Special". Comedy, Talk-Show, November 04, 2007.

Richard Hammond

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“We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.”
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
“Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.”
“Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming.”
“You must be ready in mind, body, and spirit before you can make a change. People cannot convince you to do it. You cannot force you to do it. Everything you think, say, and do until that happens is just preparation. So love yourself right now. Honor yourself. Keep talking to yourself. Keep thinking ready thoughts. In the meantime, try to remember you will not be ready until you are ready.”
“When in doubt, do the courageous thing.”
“The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.”
“Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.”

Source : "America Abroad" by Strobe Talbott, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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