Mary Roach Quotes

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• LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is closer to barking than laughing…
• There are fast chewers and slow chewers, long chewers and short chewers, right-chewing people and left-chewing people. Some of us chew straight up and down,…
• To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and…
• Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If…
• Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind…
• Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes…
• I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that…
• Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos.
• A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.
• Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You need very old ice, and you need…
• I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear…

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