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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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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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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
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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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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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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.'


If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.


We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
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If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were REAL men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Aplha Centauri.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.
Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
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"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
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"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
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