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Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.

Bill Bryson

From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.
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Rewards Sex Views
I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened,
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Childhood Deprivation Divorce Kids
The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.
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Cricket Interesting Looks
As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.
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Ability Existence Human Multitude Privilege Singular
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.
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Curious Good Planets Promoting Very
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
If you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn’t choose human beings for the job.
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Fate Jobs Lonely
The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn’t been here twelve hours and already they loved me.
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Hours Men Twelve
I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed.
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Disappoint Knows Misanthropic
You don’t have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he’s just this magnificent human being.
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Baseball Kids Successful
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
The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus
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Education Excitement Lack Stimulus
Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
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Dancing Tunes Watches
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn’t have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.
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Cows Fields Riding
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
Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days – that’s walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls – adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.
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Around Average Shopping Supermarket Walking

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