It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers one atom at a time you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
Bill Bryson
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I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.
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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.
- Bill Bryson