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But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving

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And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before—and thus was the Empire forged.

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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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Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

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He is the greatest musician of the English language, and exploring variations of familiar material is what musicians do all day.

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The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.

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Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

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

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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.

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When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.

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Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order though.

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If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

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ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly bad that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

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You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number. Er, five, said the mattress. Wrong, said Marvin. You see?

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Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality.

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There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.

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What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

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Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

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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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That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.

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The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules

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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

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I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

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The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.

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... my methods of navigation have their advantage. 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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High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

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And we'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.

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My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

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My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

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