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Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

Bill Bryson

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
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Education Excitement Lack Stimulus
The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.
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Cassava Corn Nine Oats
It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
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Curious Good Planets Promoting Very
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
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Dust Life Science
Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.
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Europe Nice Travel
You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy.
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Average Bomb Energy Hydrogen
If you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn’t choose human beings for the job.
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Fate Jobs Lonely
What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.
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Looks Names Travel
The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.
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Billion Closing Common Doors Managed Thing Years
Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings – every bit of it.
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Evening Maps Shower Summer Survey
The one upstairs room in which the Duke had resided was packed to the ceiling with hundreds of green boxes, each of which contained a single dark brown wig. This was, in short, a man worth getting to know.
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Boxes Getting Hundred Mna Upstair Worth
I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.
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Baseball Cap Looks People Wear
I love everything about motels. I can’t help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.
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Doors Keys Rooms
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Ass Bad Badass Civilization
The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don’t actually know what we actually know.
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Knows Position Remarkable
Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose,
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Average Country Distance Home People

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