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You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.

Bill Bryson

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.
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Advice Good Real World
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Ass Bad Badass Civilization
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete highway painful to behold and turns every distant reflective surface into a little glint of flame.
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Beautiful Country Light
America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn’t for me.
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Comfort Country Seductive
We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.
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Doors Four Years
I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.
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Disappointed Misanthropic People Time Want
On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well,
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Book Car Dashboard Family Long Moving
Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence.
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Believe Cities Clever
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations.
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Drug Effort Food Sensibility
That’s the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it’s gone, it’s too late to get it back.
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Gone Late Mind Too
The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it.
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Accept Country Lesson Nothing Same Thing
When each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow – flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.
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Bestow Hobbing Nature Orange Shade Vermilion
I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.
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Dawn Father Nostalgia Overcome Overcoming
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 see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
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Behaviour Long Social
I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.
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Arrangement Divorce Family Good Remarriage Ripped Together

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