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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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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Afterlife Contradiction Here Hoped

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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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Flying Ground Knack Learning

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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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Beautiful Believe Bottom Enough

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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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Common Complete People Design

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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

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Impossible Improbable Integrity Kind

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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

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Wrong. Repair Impossible Between

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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 love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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Deadlines Fly Like Love

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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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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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Fish Judge Nice Rain

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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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Bird Consider Duck Family

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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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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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Solve Major Mistake Potatoes

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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

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Cope Normality Own Problem

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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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Add Bought Give Integrity

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

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After Continue Happen Happened

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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

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

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There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

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"25 Douglas Adams Quotes & Sayings

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

Douglas Adams

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.

Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Douglas Adams

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

Douglas Adams

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Douglas Adams

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

Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams

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

Douglas Adams

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.

Douglas Adams

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.

Douglas Adams

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Douglas Adams

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Douglas Adams

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Douglas Adams

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Douglas Adams

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Douglas Adams

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.

Douglas Adams

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

Douglas Adams

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Douglas Adams

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.

Douglas Adams

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

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There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

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