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- Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the…
- Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression.
- Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but…
- Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything…
- If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
- 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…
- 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…
- There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that…
- The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
- Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.
- Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.
- I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is…
- Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
- When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with…
- The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life…
- Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
- Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.
- David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and…
- Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some…
- Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to…
- Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.
- He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.
- 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…
- 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…
- What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That…
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- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
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