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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…
- 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…
- The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.
- He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.
- 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…
- Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be…
- Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public,…
- All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you…
- A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite…
- He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he…
- One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of…
- The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much…
- The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is…
- 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…
- SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom
- It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in.…
- In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri…
- You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die…
- My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving…
- A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next.…
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