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Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Bill Bryson

South Dakota… is like the world’s first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.
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Deprivation Firsts World
From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.
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Rewards Sex Views
Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
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Benefits Hiking Journey
I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago.
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Coffee Kings Rain
English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman’s apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.
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Asking Gentleman Mean
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
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Kind Physics Simplicity
A belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding.
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Commercial Development Outside Outstanding Permitting
I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.
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Bored Boring Moments
Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.
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Ends House Refuge
That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning’s outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I’m happy.
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Balance Guess Happy Insights Morning Outing Profounded
It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players – more if they are moderately restless.
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Burn Calories Moderately Shares Spectator
A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.
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Health Robust Two
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical correctitude sometimes proves easier to urge than to achieve.
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Book Grammatically Men Remembered Writing
I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
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Behaviour Long Social
We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare.
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Number Probably Significance Suggest
Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn’t turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.
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Black People Self

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