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Way Quotes by Bill Bryson
- I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.
- In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
- An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're…
- If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors.…
- You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection…
- 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…
- Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their…
- It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely…
- Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.
- If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain…
- Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be…
- 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…
- And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any…
- Australians are very unfair in this way. They spend half of any conversation insisting that the country's dangers are vastly overrated and that there's nothing…
- So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no…
- Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We…
- In order to have quality journalism you need to have a good income stream, and no Internet model has produced a way of generating income…
- I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about…
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen