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That’s the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it’s gone, it’s too late to get it back.

Bill Bryson

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. “Oh, that’s not necessary,” he replied . “It’s so seldom I have one.
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Ideas Notebook Records
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
… it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.
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Months Six Years
For a long time, I’d been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.
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Fascinated Home Run Running Summer
As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn’t go quite so far around it as others.
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Kind Life World
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
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
Boston’s freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
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Boston Childhood Insane
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
Physicists are atoms’ way of thinking about atoms.
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Atom Thinking Way
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
…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
Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don’t seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.
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Climate Men Weather
But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
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Country Memorable Travel
Every last bit of it, good and bad – old churches, country lanes, people saying ‘Mustn’t grumble,’ and ‘I’m terribly sorry but,’ people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers.
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Apologizing Church Every Grumble Last Old People
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
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Funny Humor Race

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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