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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it’s just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

Bill Bryson

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.
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Advice Good Real World
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
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
…and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that’s really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.
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Degree Ordinary People
The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.
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Cassava Corn Nine Oats
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
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Kind Physics Simplicity
I love everything about motels. I can’t help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.
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Doors Keys Rooms
Indeed, if your pillow is six years old–which is apparently about the average age for a pillow–it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung.
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Apparently Average Estimated Suggest Tenth
Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.
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Accomplish Discovery Enough Ocean Real
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
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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Kind Mean Rooms
You don’t need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.
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Science Thinking Understanding
America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn’t have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature.
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Beauty Behind Country Fences Grasped Making Nature
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
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
Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence.
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Believe Cities Clever

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it’s just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.

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