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"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer."
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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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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by.
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"I'd far rather be happy than right any day." Slartibartfast
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Marvin: "I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
Zem: "Er, five."
Marvin: "Wrong. You see?"
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DON'T PANIC.
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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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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
[Ford Prefect:] "Why, what did she tell you?"
[Arthur:] "I don't know, I didn't listen."
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