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Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

Bill Bryson

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Memorable Pessimism

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

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Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.
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Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.

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Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.
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Accomplish Discovery Real
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
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Newspapers Screens
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Elephants Whales
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…

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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…
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There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

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There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.
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Momentum Moving
Physicists are atoms’ way of thinking about atoms.

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Physicists are atoms’ way of thinking about atoms.
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Atom Way
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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Shopping
It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.
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British Heritage Sometimes
Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn’t look it, but somehow when you get out there it’s really steep and hard.
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Looks Maps Mean
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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Distance
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Faults Much Nobody
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Memorable
This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir.
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Additional Cleaveed Produced Something
Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously.
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Cosmopolitanism Dynamic Simultaneously Socks Suits
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 Providence Whatever Wish

Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

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