Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
BILL BRYSONEvery 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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At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as “the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance.”.
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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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Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
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That’s the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it’s gone, it’s too late to get it back.
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It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.
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Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.
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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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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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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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Science has been quite embattled. It’s the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.
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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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Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.
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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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Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
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