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That's the trouble with losing your mind by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.
Bill Bryson
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Bill Bryson
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 8
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It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.
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