A belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding.
BILL BRYSONPhysicists are atoms’ way of thinking about atoms.
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In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
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Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.
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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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Cheapness is a great virtue.
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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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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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Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
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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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My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.
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The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.
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Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.
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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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It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.
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We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment.
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