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• Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

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• In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.

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• There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

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• According to an opinion poll, 13 per cent of women in the United States cannot say whether they wear their tights under their knickers or over them. That’s something like a million women walking around in a state of chronic foundation garment uncertainty.

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• In the first three months of this year the US edition of Time did not have a single report from France, Italy, Spain or Japan, to name just a few of the countries that seem to have escaped its notice.

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• He was the only person in American history for whom attaining the White House was a bad career move.

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• Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. In fact, a moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

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• I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with me and pull out for purposes of private amusement. It’s a weather forecast from the Western Daily Mail and it says, in toto: ‘Outlook: Dry and warm, but cooler with some rain.’

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• It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than is good for them.

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• There are three things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.

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• My mother only ever said two things. She said, ‘I don’t know, dear.’ And she said, ‘Can I get you a sandwich, honey?’

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• I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.

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• 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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• 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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• More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

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• There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.

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• The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don’t actually know what we actually know.

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• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

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• 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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• I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted – stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

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Bill Bryson (23)

Birth:	8th December, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Chancellor, Journalist

About

Bill Bryson is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and science. Born in the United States, he was a resident of Britain for most of his adult life before returning to the U.S. in 1995. In 2003 Bryson moved back to Britain, living in the old rectory of Wramplingham, Norfolk, and served as chancellor of Durham University from 2005 through 2011.

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