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Been Quotes by Douglas Adams
- In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
- The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly…
- People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness…
- Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself…
- Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to…
- What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of…
- That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able…
- Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors…
- And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to…
- The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to…
- The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend…
- [The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining…
- The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane…
- The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was currently a particular engaging sight, nor…
- Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they…
- He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he…
- What's up?" [asked Ford.] I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there.
- David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and…
- Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England,…
- I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There…
- He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in…
- The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did…
- There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in…
- The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally…
- In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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