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Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.
Douglas Adams
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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal? Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.
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Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your th and th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.
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He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
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There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.
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Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.
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If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.
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Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.
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He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.
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Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.
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The point is, you see, said Ford, that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.
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Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.
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Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
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Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
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2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.
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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 incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.
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I think we have different value systems. Well, mine's better.
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I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.
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He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.
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And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.
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One is never alone with a rubber duck.
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