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Often Quotes by Douglas Adams
- The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
- 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…
- 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…
- He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.
- Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did…
- Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
- The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational…
- He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find…
More Often Quotes
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- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
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- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I… — J. J. Abrams
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange