"My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that."

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The more I see of life in these 'undeveloped countries' and of the methods adopted to 'improve' them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.

— Dervla Murphy