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If you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn’t choose human beings for the job.

Bill Bryson

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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Book Grammatically Men Remembered Writing
Correct me if I’m wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.
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Country Mastered Nation Ought
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
Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls.
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Car Friendly Shopping
It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
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Curious Good Planets Promoting Very
Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
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Age Coffee Figure Nylon Planet
I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.
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Anonymous Cities Feelings Travel
As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn’t go quite so far around it as others.
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Kind Life World
Life just wants to be; but it doesn’t want to be much.
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Life Want Wonderful
What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.
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Looks Names Travel
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
“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
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
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Funny Humor Race
Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion of good English has less to do with expressing ideas clearly than with making words conform to some arbitrary pattern.
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Decay Ideas People Usage Writing
I think it’s only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.
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City Crazy Own Thinking
So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right.
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Beer Eight Powerful

If you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn’t choose human beings for the job.

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If you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn’t choose human beings for the job.

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