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America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn’t for me.

Bill Bryson

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It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.
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Consumed Protein Today Typical
Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.

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Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
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It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.
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British Heritage Sometimes
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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Loved Sorry Suddenly Summer
…and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that’s really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

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…and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that’s really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.
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Ordinary
I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life…I can’t dispute it.

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I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life…I can’t dispute it.
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Famous Pompous
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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Grammatically Remembered
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
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
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
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
Don’t you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.
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Lives
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Higher Known Maintaining Reduced Tried
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country’s dangers are vastly overrated and that there’s nothing to worry about.
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Conversation Eye Insisting Uncles
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by ‘we’ I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement.

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If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by ‘we’ I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement.
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Mean
Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.

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Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
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America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn’t for me.

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