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I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose--Timothy Ferris, Richard Fortey and Tim Flannery are three that jump out from a single station of the alphabet (and that's not even to mention the late but godlike Richard Feynman)--but,
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In Australia and the Americas," says Tim Flannery, "the animals probably didn't know enough to run away."
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Margaret Atwood, J.G. Ballard, Ray Bradbury, Jim Crace, Arthur C. Clarke, Russell Hoban, Anna Kavan, Doris Lessing, Cormac McCarthy, Walter M. Miller, Tim O'Brien, Will Self and Marcel Theroux,
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the Bogdanov theory excited debate among physicists as to whether it was twaddle, a work of genius, or a hoax. 'Scientifically, it's clearly more or less complete nonsense, Columbia University physicist Peter Woit told the New York Times, 'but these days that doesn't much distinguish it from a lot of the rest of the literature.
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For forty years or so this was the world headquarters of conspicuous consumption.
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We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
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Bryson. You've got three kinds of chromosomes: X, Y and fuck-head. - Katz
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Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
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Excuse me, but I just have to say this. You are more stupid than a paramecium.
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Tell me, did they specify 'asshole' on the job description, or did you take a course?"
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The thing about the Army Corps of Engineers is that they don't build things very well.
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America was entering the age not just of the automobile but of the retarded attention span.
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There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
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Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.
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Above all, what is oddest to the outsider is that Aborigines just aren't there.
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