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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.

Bill Bryson

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world’s population.
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Population Two World
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
It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual.
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Autumn Fields Green Muskiness Sight Sumptuous
Correct me if I’m wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.
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Country Mastered Nation Ought
Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don’t think a clean pillow-case will make a difference…
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Average Home Thinking
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
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Adaptability Term Useless
The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn’t been here twelve hours and already they loved me.
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Hours Men Twelve
Woods are not like other spaces. To begin with, they are cubic. Their trees surround you, loom over you, press in from all sides. Woods choke off views & leave you muddled & without bearings.
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Children Confused Loom Press Views
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
People don’t talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain.
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Issues Rain Running
In order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.
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Astoundingly Briefly Combination Result
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 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
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
Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
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Dog Earth Want
There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.
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Momentum Moving Want

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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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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