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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.

Bill Bryson

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
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Benefits Hiking Journey
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
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Illumination Light World
In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications.
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Eye Morning Simple
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
Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn’t given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.
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Antibiotic Industry Pharmaceutical
People don’t talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolour left in the rain.
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Issues Rain Running
Boston’s freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
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Boston Childhood Insane
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
Geologists are never at a loss for paperweights.
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Geologist Loss Paperweight
A tiny bundle of genetic material passed from one living entity to another, and has never stopped moving since. It was the moment of creation for us all.
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Another Bundle Creation Material Passed
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. “Oh, that’s not necessary,” he replied . “It’s so seldom I have one.
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Ideas Notebook Records
Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception.
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Distance Feet Two
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.
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Beautiful Generations Hate
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
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Adaptability Term Useless
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
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as “the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance.”.
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Country Feelings Practice

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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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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