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Correct me if I’m wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.

Bill Bryson

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Disappoint Knows Misanthropic
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Cheapness Great Virtue
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You don’t need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.
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Achievement May T Nightmare Wors
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
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Fashion Matter Writing
Correct me if I’m wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.
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Country Mastered Nation Ought
When each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow – flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.
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Bestow Hobbing Nature Orange Shade Vermilion
The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
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Education Excitement Lack Stimulus
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Drug Effort Food Sensibility
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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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls.
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My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions.
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Distribution Out Royal Science Work
If you believe in god, it’s much more fantastic to believe that he created this universe billions of years ago and set in motion this long train of activities that eventually resulted in us. I think that’s so much more satisfying, more thrilling, than the idea that it was all done in seven days.
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Believe Thinking Years

Correct me if I’m wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.

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