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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.

Bill Bryson

I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened,
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Childhood Deprivation Divorce Kids
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.
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Beautiful Generations Hate
From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.
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Rewards Sex Views
Because time moves more slowly in Kid World … it goes on for decades … It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
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Adults Kids Moving
A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.
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Health Robust Two
Indeed, if your pillow is six years old–which is apparently about the average age for a pillow–it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung.
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Apparently Average Estimated Suggest Tenth
A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.
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Billion Buddha Name
There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.
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Incidentally Such Things
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn’t have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.
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Brain Elephants Whales
I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.
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Bed Forever Sleep
When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.
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Fabric Frozen Memories
There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.
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America Government Years
Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.
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Exception Quirky Scientist Trying Way
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you’ll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors.
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Appreciation Gratitude Mountain
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
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Adaptability Term Useless
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

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