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Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.
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Accomplish Discovery Enough Ocean Real
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows…
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Distressing Iowa Looks Space
English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman’s apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.
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Asking Gentleman Mean
The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
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Education Excitement Lack Stimulus
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
In the countryside, litter doesn’t have a friend. It doesn’t have anybody who’s saying, ‘Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.’
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Control Minutes Starting Waiting
We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare.
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Number Probably Significance Suggest
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
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English People Speak Trying
Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
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Desperate Higher Known Maintaining Reduced Tried
A third…candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn’t too dead to work.
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Age Candidate Leisure Two
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 World
When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn’t come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards.
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Dark Growing Thinking Up
…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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Degree Ordinary People
So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won’t help me out when I can’t remember a street name.
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Country Morning Moving
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
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Kind Physics Simplicity
Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
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Ambitious Earth Visible

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