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Who is this god person anyway?
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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate— 'let it be. It won't be long.' Richard stared in disbelief. 'You say there's a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?' The Professor looked blankly at him.
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
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You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.
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What do you get if you multiply six by nine? Six by nine. Forty two. That's it. That's all there is. I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe
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Don't blame you, said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
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What's up? I don't know, said Marvin, I've never been there.
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The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
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Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.
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A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.
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The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.
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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. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.
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Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.
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Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well! It must have been made to have me in it!
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