Best quotes by Bill Bryson on World

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• ‟ We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

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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.

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• ‟ More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

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• ‟ The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

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• ‟ Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.

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• ‟ Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

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• ‟ A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

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• ‟ Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

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