"What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..."

Discovery, Curiosity, Exploration, Observation, Wonder

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"What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit..."

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"I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth."

Time

"Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains."

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"It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously."

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"By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it."

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"In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-heeled homes up until at least the time of the First World War."

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"For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere)."

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"Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being."

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"Imagine having a city full of things that no other city had."

Vision

"I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations."

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