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• Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.

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  Jobs, President, Attention

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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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  Mind, Possibility, Arthur Dent

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• It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

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  Book, Writing, Awful

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• I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

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  Intelligence, Panic, Firsts

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

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  Lying, Book, Bed

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2005). “The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be”, p.38, Crown Archetype

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• In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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  Real, Men, Brave

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• Arthur Dent: What happens if I press this button? Ford Prefect: I wouldn't- Arthur Dent: Oh. Ford Prefect: What happened? Arthur Dent: A sign lit up, saying 'Please do not press this button again.

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  Buttons, Saying Please, Arthur

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• The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.

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  Life, Bird, Hug

  "Last Chance To See".

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• What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!

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  Assuming, Crosses, Knows

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.734, Pan Macmillan

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• I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

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  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. November 8, 2000.

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• They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

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  Grandmother, Order, Three

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

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  Heart, Mind, Fundamentals

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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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." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

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  Tired, Airports, Expression

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

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  Life, Deep Thought, Answers

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• The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.

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  Stars, Long, Lasts

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.105, Pan Macmillan

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• Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.

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  Running, Mean, Exercise

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.128, Pan Macmillan

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• We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"

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  Technology, Thinking, Should Have

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• But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

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  Light, Filing Cabinet, Doors

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.28, Del Rey

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• Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

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  Believe, Simple, Not Sure

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet

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  Technology, Names, Giving

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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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  People, Mind, Hitchhiking

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.129, Del Rey

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• You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose.

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  Advice, Sound, Usual

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.677, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

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  Meat, Months, Sides

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

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• Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.

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  Attitude, People, Black

  Douglas Adams (2008). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.34, Del Rey

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• ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

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  Clever, Games, Skills

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2013). “The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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