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Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Bill Bryson

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 always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.
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Baseball Book Country Problem
Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
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Discover Feeling Leave Touch
They make you feel small & confused & vulnerable, like a small child lost in a crowd of strange legs. Stand in a desert or prairie & you know you are in a big space. Stand in the woods and you only sense it. They are vast, featureless nowhere. And they are alive.
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Confuse Crowd Feel Smart Space Stand
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical correctitude sometimes proves easier to urge than to achieve.
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Book Grammatically Men Remembered Writing
There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
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Littles Thinking Toothpaste
It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual.
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Autumn Fields Green Muskiness Sight Sumptuous
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
Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.
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Country Murder Possibility
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
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
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Adaptability Term Useless
In the countryside, litter doesn’t have a friend. It doesn’t have anybody who’s saying, ‘Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.’
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Control Minutes Starting Waiting
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
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
There is more difference between a zebra and a horse, or between a dolphin and a porpoise, than there is between you and the furry creatures your distant ancestors left behind when they set out to take over the world.
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Differences Horse Zebras
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

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