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All the things that are part of your heritage make you British – that makes this country what it is. It’s part of your history. And here, unlike America, it’s still living history.

Bill Bryson

It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.
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Analysis Astrophysics Market Modelling Practical Social
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.
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Judging Skins Travel
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
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
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Country Feels Way
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world’s population.
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Population Two World
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Ass Bad Badass Civilization
The amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is-whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze-perfect.
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Amazing Composition Perfect Season Together Words
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.
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Beautiful Country Light
Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain – which is to say, all of it.
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Country Loved Sorry Suddenly Summer
When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.
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Fabric Frozen Memories
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
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Book Disappointment Shopping
“Croissant”: However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you can come to saying “kwass-ohn,” the sooner you can expect to be presented with one.
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Croissants Home United States
There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.
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Incidentally Such Things
I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
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Des Moines Someone
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
I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.
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Arrangement Divorce Family Good Remarriage Ripped Together

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British – that makes this country what it is. It’s part of your history. And here, unlike America, it’s still living history.

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All the things that are part of your heritage make you British – that makes this country what it is. It’s part of your history. And here, unlike America, it’s still living history.

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