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That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning’s outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I’m happy.

Bill Bryson

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.
BILL BRYSON

Mean Mistake Thinking
That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning’s outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I’m happy.
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Balance Guess Happy Insights Morning Outing Profounded
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
The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don’t actually know what we actually know.
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Knows Position Remarkable
You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don’t want to live with them.
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May Parents People
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world’s population.
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Population Two World
Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls – you don’t find a sense of community in malls.
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Community Downtown Iowa
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
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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Beer Coffee Travel
Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn’t turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.
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Black People Self
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
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
Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country’s dangers are vastly overrated and that there’s nothing to worry about.
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Conversation Country Eye Insisting Uncles
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
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Ass Bad Badass Civilization
If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you’ll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors.
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Appreciation Gratitude Mountain

That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning’s outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I’m happy.

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That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning’s outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I’m happy.

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