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- There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight…
- No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives…
- 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…
- He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so…
- ...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another…
- If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached…
- The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the…
- Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire,…
- 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…
- After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the…
- How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?
- The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck…
- The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent…
- In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research…
- Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at…
- Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside,…
- It was neither deja vu, presque vu, nor jamais vu. It was possible that there were other vus of which he had never heard and…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle