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Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

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And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks.
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Mean Shopping Sorry
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
Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
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Discover Feeling Leave Touch
The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.
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Enormous Realize Scale Secret Way
The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn’t just common to me; it’s anybody who’s funny.
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Common Real Veins
We may be all there is. It’s an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe’s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
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Achievement Nightmare Simultaneously Worst
Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
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Ambitious Earth Visible
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 Far Providence Whatever Wish
If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.
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Frantic Idea Ideas Men Sound Vasectomy
I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It’s a weather forecast from theWestern Daily Mail and it says, in toto: ‘Outlook: Dry and warm, but cooler with some rain.
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Daily Mail Rain Weather
There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you and the furry creatures your distant ancestors left behind when they set out to take over the world.
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Differences Horse Zebras
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
There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.
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Odd Scientist Very Good
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
A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)
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Church Doors Yards
In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe
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Matter Minutes Three

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