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Bill Bryson

It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.
BILL BRYSON

Analysis Astrophysics Market Modelling Practical Social
You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.
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Believe Hands Scientist
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
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
England was full of words I’d never heard before – streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
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Country Ice Cream Sides Standard Tea
Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don’t think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.
BILL BRYSON

Mean Mistake Thinking
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
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
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Adaptability Term Useless
Don’t you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.
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Allow Believe Lives Social Sun
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.
BILL BRYSON

Baseball Book Country Problem
It’s hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we’ve killed off an awful lot of animals – and I don’t think we’re doing a very good job of looking after the planet.
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Animal History Human Jobs Pessimistic Thinking
The people are immensely likable- cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian.
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Beer Cheerful Cities Coffee
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by ‘we’ I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement.
BILL BRYSON

Appreciate Book Mean
By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.
BILL BRYSON

Eternity Moment Time Together Universe
Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.
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Ends House Refuge
We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?
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Frustrating Infinite Live Person Possibly

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