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14 Quotes for 'Douglas Adams' in the Database.
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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.
Topic: Absurdity
Source: None
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of
the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded
yellow sun.
Topic: Books (First Lines)
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1979] (prologue)
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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.
Topic: Experience
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Humanity
Source: None
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Topic: Idiots
Source: None
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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
Topic: Illusion
Source: None
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.
Topic: Life
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (ch. 27)
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Life is wasted on the living.
Topic: Life
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We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
Topic: Uncertainty
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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.
Topic: Uniqueness
Source: None
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In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Topic: Universe
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Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.
Topic: Universe
Source: None
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