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In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

Bill Bryson

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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Age Along Lightning Rolling
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
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Alternatives Century Scientist
South Dakota… is like the world’s first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.
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Deprivation Firsts World
The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.
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Giving Television Worry
Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings – every bit of it.
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Evening Maps Shower Summer Survey
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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Doors Keys Rooms
So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won’t help me out when I can’t remember a street name.
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Country Morning Moving
I have long known that it is part of God’s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
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Long People Stupid
Everything that has ever lived, plant or animal, dates its beginning from the same primordial twitch. At some point in an unimaginably distant past, some little bag of chemicals fidgeted to life. It absorbed some nutrients, gently pulsed, had a brief existence.
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Animal Moving Past Same
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
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Adaptability Term Useless
Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
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Dancing Tunes Watches
Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Woods choke off views & leave you muddled & without bearings.
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Children Confused Loom Press Views
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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Billion Closing Common Doors Managed Thing Years
I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn’t know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.
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Country Discovered Found Million Patience People
A belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding.
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Commercial Development Outside Outstanding Permitting
I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they’ve left me.
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Kind Mean Rooms

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