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Great Quotes by Douglas Adams
- 2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for…
- The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for…
- 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…
- Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you…
- All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
- The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
- 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…
- Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.
- Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who…
- I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.
- Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at…
- In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica…
- They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
- One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the…
- In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.
- She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior…
- The Answer to the Great Question Of...Life, the Universe and Everything...[is] Forty-two.
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