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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.

Bill Bryson

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Ass Bad Badass Civilization
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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Automobile Being Everything Human
Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.
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Giving Identity Personality
The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this.
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Beer Coffee Travel
It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players – more if they are moderately restless.
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Burn Calories Moderately Shares Spectator
But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on.
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Believe Rocks Strong
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
I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago.
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Coffee Kings Rain
Traveling is more fun – hell, life is more fun – if you can treat it as a series of impulses.
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Fun Hell Life
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
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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America Government Years
There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.
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Incidentally Such Things
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one’s face.
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Eyebrows Flames Science
When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in the middle of which sat the Duke’s commode. The main hall was mysteriously floor less. Most of the rooms were painted pink.
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Chamber Dark Dukes Men
Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.
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Devil Tree Want
“Croissant”: However you choose to pronounce it at home, it is perhaps worth nothing that outside the United States, the closer you can come to saying “kwass-ohn,” the sooner you can expect to be presented with one.
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Croissants Home United States

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