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Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.
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Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
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Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
  - Douglas Adams more quotations on [Life]
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. 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 York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
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