Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.
Michael PalinTag: humor travel machu-picchu
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!
Michael PalinI enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing each day used to the full to actually produce something. The end.
Michael PalinTag: writing family home satisfaction productivity
I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.
Michael PalinTag: argument debate black-and-white shades-of-grey
My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.
Michael PalinTag: happiness love parents marriage
It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.
Michael PalinTag: peace religion church problems contemplation
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.
Michael PalinTag: equality democracy capitalism poverty competition poor
As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.
Michael PalinTag: belief religion atheism agnosticism
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.
Michael PalinOnce the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
Michael PalinTag: travel traveling reisen trave
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