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Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

Bill Bryson

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
…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
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
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
I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.
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Baseball Book Country Problem
You are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.
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Across Country Even Going Without
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
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Dust Life Science
Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.
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Geologist Loss Paperweight
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
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
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
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
I love everything about motels. I can’t help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.
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Doors Keys Rooms
I understand cricket – what’s going on, the scoring – but I can’t understand why.
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Cricket Scoring Understand
This much may have happened many times before. But this ancestral packet did something additional and extraordinary. It cleaved itself and produced an heir.
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Additional Cleaveed Produced Something
The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.
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Enormous Realize Scale Secret Way

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

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Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

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