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It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
Category: Animals and Pets Author: Douglas Adams
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Category: Experience Author: Douglas Adams
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Category: Goals Author: Douglas Adams
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It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the Universe has a population of zero then the entire population of the Universe must also be zero, and any people you may actually meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
Category: Hmmm Author: Douglas Adams
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Category: Humorous Quotations Author: Douglas Adams
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Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
Category: Humorous Quotations Author: Douglas Adams
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Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.
Category: Humorous Quotations Author: Douglas Adams Source: Mostly Harmless
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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
Category: Jobs Author: Douglas Adams
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Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
Category: Life Author: Douglas Adams
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Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
Category: Light Author: Douglas Adams
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This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Category: Money Author: Douglas Adams
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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Category: Perspective Author: Douglas Adams
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Category: Religion Author: Douglas Adams
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Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.
Category: Self Discovery Author: Douglas Adams
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Category: Self Discovery Author: Douglas Adams
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If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.
Category: Smoking Author: Douglas Adams
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If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.
Category: Smoking Author: Douglas Adams
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