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From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

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.
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Analysis Astrophysics Market Modelling Practical Social
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
I had spent the whole of my savings … on a suit for the wedding – a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn’t see my legs move.
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Fashion Moving Pieces
I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.
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Going Themselves Wanted Wood Work Wreathed
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
If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.
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Frantic Idea Ideas Men Sound Vasectomy
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
Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.
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Geologist Loss Paperweight
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
A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.
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Billion Buddha Name
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
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Fun Inspirational Sarcastic
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
Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
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Age Coffee Figure Nylon Planet
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.
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Mean Mistake Thinking
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
To understand what anyone is saying to us we must separate these noises into words and the words into sentences so that we might in our turn issue a stream of mixed sounds in response.
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Noises Sentences Separate Stream Understand

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