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I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Bill Bryson

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 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
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
The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.
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Cricket Interesting Looks
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
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods.
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Beneath Gained Home Sleep Stars
Because time moves more slowly in Kid World … it goes on for decades … It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
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Adults Kids Moving
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
I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.
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Dawn Father Nostalgia Overcome Overcoming
Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.
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Exception Quirky Scientist Trying Way
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
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Country Funny Inspirational
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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Automobile Benefits Malls
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
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
Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
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Desperate Higher Known Maintaining Reduced Tried
Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
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Ambitious Earth Visible

I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

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I don’t know whether I’m misanthropic. It seems to me I’m constantly disappointed. I’m very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

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