"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."
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"For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there."
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"If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'"
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"The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making."
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"I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in."
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"The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain."
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"The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with."
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"So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about."
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"If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working."
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"You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool."
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"I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good."
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"So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means."
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"It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
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"Reality is hopelessly inaccurate."
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"The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place..."
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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."
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"The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."
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"What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group."
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"I don't go to mythical places with strange men."
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"The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along."
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