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Thought Quotes by Bill Bryson
- 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…
- Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and…
- It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it…
- Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the…
- ...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of…
- It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
- Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye,…
- ...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…
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour