"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."
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"We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying."
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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."
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"Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence."
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"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
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"Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your th and th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited."
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"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
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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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"Life! Don't talk to me about life!"
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"2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change."
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"Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
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"The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion."
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"There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick."
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"It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever."
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"It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."
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"Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. -Marvin"
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"Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of."
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"Life is wasted on the living."
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"And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything."
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"Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin. "And what happened?" pressed Ford. "It committed suicide," said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold."
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