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- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly…
- For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and…
- I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.
- It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything…
- 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…
- R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than,…
- All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
- If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
- Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
- What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we…
- Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people…
- 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…
- 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…
- Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he…
- The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.
- The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and…
- The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial,…
- But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or…
- 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…
- The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty…
- No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle