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You are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.

Bill Bryson

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can’t we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.
BILL BRYSON

Animal Asking Pigs
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
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
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Adaptability Term Useless
But here’s an extrememly salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is.
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Chosen Far Providence Whatever Wish
Beulah has a husband?’ I know. It’s a miracle. There can’t be more than two people on the planet who’d be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town.
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Husband Sleep Two
Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.
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Exception Quirky Scientist Trying Way
He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.
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Doe Faces Sense Of Humor
It isn’t easy to become a fossil. … Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today.
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Mean Science Skeletons
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
Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you.
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Names Numbers Stars
Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don’t think a clean pillow-case will make a difference…
BILL BRYSON

Average Home Thinking
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame.
BILL BRYSON

Beautiful Country Light
Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment.
BILL BRYSON

Firsts Perfect Together
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Ass Bad Badass Civilization
When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn’t come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards.
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Dark Growing Thinking Up
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
BILL BRYSON

Age Along Lightning Rolling

You are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.

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