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Book: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
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  1. Bill Bryson _ I'm a Stranger Here Myself:

    Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
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  2. Bill Bryson _ I'm a Stranger Here Myself:

    In the United States, frozen cheese pizza is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. Frozen pepperoni pizza, on the other hand, is regulated by the Department of Agriculture.
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  3. Bill Bryson _ I'm a Stranger Here Myself:

    If you initialed one dollar per second, you would make $1,000 every seventeen minutes. After 12 days of nonstop effort you would acquire your first $1 million. Thus, it would take you 120 days to accumulate $10 million and 1,200 days- something over three years-to reach $100 million. After 31.7 years you would become a billionaire, and after almost a thousand years you would be as wealthy as Bill Gates. But not until after 31,709.8 years would you count your trillionth dollar {and even then you would be less than one-fourth of the way through the pile of money representing America's national debt}. That is what $1 trillion is.
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  4. Bill Bryson _ I'm a Stranger Here Myself:

    I longed for artificial bacon bits, melted cheese in a shade of yellow unknown to nature, and creamy chocolate fillings, sometimes all in the same product. I wanted food that squirts when you bite into it or plops onto your shirt front in such gross quantities that you have to rise very, very carefully from the table and sort of limbo over to the sink to clean yourself up.
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  5. Bill Bryson _ I'm a Stranger Here Myself:

    As the economist Herman Daly once put it: "The current national accounting system treats the earth as a business in liquidation.
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  6. Bill Bryson _ I'm a Stranger Here Myself:

    In Anglo-Saxon times, according to Crippen, it was customary for someone offering a drink to say, "Wassail!" and for the recipient to respond "Drinkhail!" and for the participants to repeat the exercise until comfortably horizontal.
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