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The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don’t actually know what we actually know.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.
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Hunters Nature Years
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
Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment.
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Firsts Perfect Together
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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Age Along Lightning Rolling
I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
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Behaviour Long Social
And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks.
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Mean Shopping Sorry
Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.
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Earth Left Behind Records
Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you.
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Names Numbers Stars
On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well,
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Book Car Dashboard Family Long Moving
English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman’s apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.
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Asking Gentleman Mean
To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding.
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Country Knees People Spring
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
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Newspapers Screens World
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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Always Better Excellent Food Shines
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.
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Judging Skins Travel
Because time moves more slowly in Kid World … it goes on for decades … It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
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Adults Kids Moving
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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Excitable People Self Wondered

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