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I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they’ve left me.

Bill Bryson

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn’t go quite so far around it as others.
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Kind Life World
There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo.
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Incidentally Such Things
A belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding.
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Commercial Development Outside Outstanding Permitting
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
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Everyday Life Summer Travel
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
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn’t have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.
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Brain Elephants Whales
In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe
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Matter Minutes Three
South Dakota… is like the world’s first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.
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Deprivation Firsts World
I have long known that it is part of God’s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
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Long People Stupid
It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
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Dust Life Science
When each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow – flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.
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Bestow Hobbing Nature Orange Shade Vermilion
It’s an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe’s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
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Achievement May T Nightmare Wors
There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.
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Home House Phones
Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men’s magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.
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Father Kids Men
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
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Country Feels Way
I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.
BILL BRYSON

Bed Forever Sleep

I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see what kind of shampoo they’ve left me.

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