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“It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear”

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What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he…

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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…

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One is never alone with a rubber duck.

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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

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“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets…

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“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely…

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People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating…

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Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still…

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"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."

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“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where…

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