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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
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“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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“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.”
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“The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.”
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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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“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”
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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
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“The only way to endure is to outwit, outplay, laugh at or run away from your problems.”
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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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“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”
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“I may be slightly different from other people, but I’m just a little more honest about it.”
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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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“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.” SPRINGTIME MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES
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“Life…is like a grapefruit. Well, it’s sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It’s got pips inside, too. Oh, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.”
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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.”
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying. Or rather, a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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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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“I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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“I’d like to say that optimism is just a lack of information, but that’s not true. Hope springs eternal. But hope also makes you blind, deaf, and stupid.”
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“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
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“Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let’s prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
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“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
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“If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ’em a mirror and a few pictures of worms and go, ‘There you are!'”