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Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you. (Douglas Adams)
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion. View quote
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SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom. View quote
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The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. View quote
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In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was. View quote
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"Stotting" is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow. View quote
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. View quote
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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. View quote
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The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. View quote
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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. View quote
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Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there. (Douglas Adams)
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. View quote
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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. View quote
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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. View quote
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I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. View quote
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To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. View quote
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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. View quote
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The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis. View quote
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Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? View quote
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Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet. View quote
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My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' he muttered to himself, 'and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. (Douglas Adams)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it. View quote
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Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches? View quote
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