'The difficulty with this conversation,' said Arthur after a sort of pondering look had crawled slowly across his face like a mountaineer negotiating a tricky outcrop, 'is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.'

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

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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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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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Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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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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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

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The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

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There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

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We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

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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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