"The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood."
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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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"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
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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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"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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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
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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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"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
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"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
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"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot 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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"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious."
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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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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
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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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"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport."
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"What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer."
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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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"So long, and thanks for all the fish."
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"Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up."
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